The Ass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ KK LL MM NN OO PP| I woke and rose and slipt away | A |
| To the heathery hills in the morning grey | A |
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| In a field where the dew lay cold and deep | B |
| I met an ass new roused from sleep | B |
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| I stroked his nose and I tickled his ears | C |
| And spoke soft words to quiet his fears | C |
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| His eyes stared into the eyes of me | D |
| And he kissed my hands of his courtesy | D |
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| O big brown brother out of the waste | E |
| How do thistles for breakfast taste | E |
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| And do you rejoice in the dawn divine | F |
| With a heart that is glad no less than mine | F |
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| For brother the depth of your gentle eyes | G |
| Is strange and mystic as the skies | G |
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| What are the thoughts that grope behind | H |
| Down in the mist of a donkey mind | H |
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| Can it be true as the wise men tell | I |
| That you are a mask of God as well | I |
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| And as in us so in you no less | J |
| Speaks the eternal Loveliness | J |
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| And words of the lips that all things know | K |
| Among the thoughts of a donkey go | K |
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| However it be O four foot brother | L |
| Fair to day is the earth our mother | L |
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| God send you peace and delight thereof | M |
| And all green meat of the waste you love | M |
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| And guard you well from violent men | N |
| Who'd put you back in the shafts again | N |
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| But the ass had far too wise a head | O |
| To answer one of the things I said | O |
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| So he twitched his fair ears up and down | P |
| And turned to nuzzle his shoulder brown | P |
C. S. Lewis
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