A Geological Madrigal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGI JKJKLMLM NONOPQPQ| I have found out a gift for my fair | A |
| I know where the fossils abound | B |
| Where the footprints of Aves declare | A |
| The birds that once walked on the ground | B |
| Oh come and in technical speech | C |
| We'll walk this Devonian shore | D |
| Or on some Silurian beach | C |
| We'll wander my love evermore | D |
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| I will show thee the sinuous track | E |
| By the slow moving Annelid made | F |
| Or the Trilobite that farther back | E |
| In the old Potsdam sandstone was laid | F |
| Thou shalt see in his Jurassic tomb | G |
| The Plesiosaurus embalmed | H |
| In his Oolitic prime and his bloom | G |
| Iguanodon safe and unharmed | I |
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| You wished I remember it well | J |
| And I loved you the more for that wish | K |
| For a perfect cystedian shell | J |
| And a WHOLE holocephalic fish | K |
| And oh if Earth's strata contains | L |
| In its lowest Silurian drift | M |
| Or palaeozoic remains | L |
| The same 'tis your lover's free gift | M |
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| Then come love and never say nay | N |
| But calm all your maidenly fears | O |
| We'll note love in one summer's day | N |
| The record of millions of years | O |
| And though the Darwinian plan | P |
| Your sensitive feelings may shock | Q |
| We'll find the beginning of man | P |
| Our fossil ancestors in rock | Q |
Bret Harte
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