A Greater Than He Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAB DEDDE FGFFG HIHHI JKJJK LMNLM OPOOO QAQQA RORRO SOSSO ATACT OOOOOBaby sits upon the floor | A |
Baby's scarce a twelvemonth old | B |
Baby laughs and goo goos o'er | C |
Memories how a babe of yore | A |
Humbled Glooskap bold | B |
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Glooskap was a man of might | D |
Skilled in magic huge of limb | E |
Giant wizard goblin sprite | D |
Ghost witch devil imp of night | D |
All had fled from him | E |
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Then he questioned Can there be | F |
Further labors to be done | G |
Breathes there one to equal me | F |
Who before me will not flee | F |
Quoth a squaw Yes one | G |
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Name him angry Glooskap cried | H |
Baby said she And be warned | I |
If you meddle woe betide | H |
All your glory all your pride | H |
For you will be scorned | I |
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Baby sat upon the ground | J |
Harming none and sucked his thumb | K |
Gazing with a look profound | J |
Upon Glooskap and around | J |
Solon wise Sphinx dumb | K |
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Glooskap never married was | L |
So he thought like all his kind | M |
That he knew the nursery laws | N |
Wholly and with ease could cause | L |
Service prompt and blind | M |
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Sweetly the magician smiled | O |
Like the summer sun and said | P |
Hither Baby But the child | O |
By the sweet smile unbeguiled | O |
Only shook his head | O |
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Like a bird among the trees | Q |
Singing Glooskap spake once more | A |
Baby listened to the glees | Q |
Sucked his thumb and sat at ease | Q |
Still upon the floor | A |
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Thundering the magician spoke | R |
Hither Baby I command | O |
Baby stirred not only broke | R |
Into wailings that awoke | R |
All the desert land | O |
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Mystic song and magic spell | S |
Fit to raise the very dead | O |
Fit to rule the imps that dwell | S |
In the deepest depths of Hell | S |
Glooskap sang and said | O |
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All was vain Upon the floor | A |
Baby sat and heard each lay | T |
Listened close and called for more | A |
When each mystic song was o'er | C |
But did not obey | T |
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Then the baffled warrior wept | O |
And the baby in delight | O |
Sitting where a sunbeam slept | O |
Laughed and crowed and crowing kept | O |
Till his foe took flight | O |
Arthur Weir
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