A Handy Mole Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFAA GHHHHH| A handy Mole who plied no shovel | A |
| To excavate his vaulted hovel | A |
| While hard at work met in mid furrow | B |
| An Earthworm boring out his burrow | B |
| Our Mole had dined and must grow thinner | C |
| Before he gulped a second dinner | C |
| And on no other terms cared he | D |
| To meet a worm of low degree | D |
| The Mole turned on his blindest eye | E |
| Passing that base mechanic by | E |
| The Worm entrenched in actual blindness | F |
| Ignored or kindness or unkindness | F |
| Each wrought his own exclusive tunnel | A |
| To reach his own exclusive funnel | A |
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| A plough its flawless track pursuing | G |
| Involved them in one common ruin | H |
| Where now the mine and countermine | H |
| The dined on and the one to dine | H |
| The impartial ploughshare of extinction | H |
| Annulled them all without distinction | H |
Christina Rossetti
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