The Oyster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFDDGG| Two halves of an oyster shell each a shallow cup | A |
| Here once lived an oyster before they ate him up | A |
| Oyster shells are smooth inside outside very rough | B |
| Very little room to spare but he had enough | B |
| Bedroom parlor kitchen or cellar there was none | C |
| Just one room in all the house oysters need but one | C |
| And he was never troubled by wind or rain or snow | D |
| For he had a roof above another one below | D |
| I wonder if they fried him or cooked him in a stew | E |
| And sold him at a fair and passed him off for two | E |
| I wonder if the oysters all have names like us | F |
| And did he have a name like John or Romulus | F |
| I wonder if his parents wept to see him go | D |
| I wonder who can tell perhaps the mermaids know | D |
| I wonder if our sleep the most of us would dread | G |
| If we slept like oysters a million in a bed | G |
Arthur Macy
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about The Oyster poem by Arthur Macy
Best Poems of Arthur Macy