A Greater Than He Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAB DEDDE FGFFG HIHHI JKJJK LMNLM OPOOO QAQQA RORRO SOSSO ATACT OOOOO| Baby 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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