The Frog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEEFG HH IIJJKKBBB LM NMOOPP KKOOQM| Contemptuous of his home beyond | A |
| The village and the village pond | A |
| A large souled Frog who spurned each byeway | B |
| Hopped along the imperial highway | B |
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| Nor grunting pig nor barking dog | C |
| Could disconcert so great a frog | D |
| The morning dew was lingering yet | E |
| His sides to cool his tongue to wet | E |
| The night dew when the night should come | F |
| A travelled frog would send him home | G |
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| Not so alas the wayside grass | H |
| Sees him no more not so alas | H |
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| A broadwheeled waggon unawares | I |
| Ran him down his joys his cares | I |
| From dying choke one feeble croak | J |
| The Frog's perpetual silence broke | J |
| Ye buoyant Frogs ye great and small | K |
| Even I am mortal after all | K |
| My road to Fame turns out a wry way | B |
| I perish on this hideous highway | B |
| Oh for my old familiar byeway | B |
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| The choking Frog sobbed and was gone | L |
| The waggoner strode whistling on | M |
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| Unconscious of the carnage done | N |
| Whistling that waggoner strode on | M |
| Whistling it may have happened so | O |
| A Froggy would a wooing go | O |
| A hypothetic frog trolled he | P |
| Obtuse to a reality | P |
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| O rich and poor O great and small | K |
| Such oversights beset us all | K |
| The mangled frog abides incog | O |
| The uninteresting actual frog | O |
| The hypothetic frog alone | Q |
| Is the one frog we dwell upon | M |
Christina Rossetti
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