Scuttle, Scuttle, Little Roach Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHIJ KKLL MMFF NNBB| SCUTTLE scuttle little roach | A |
| How you run when I approach | A |
| Up above the pantry shelf | B |
| Hastening to secrete yourself | B |
| - | |
| Most adventurous of vermin | C |
| How I wish I could determine | D |
| How you spend your hours of ease | E |
| Perhaps reclining on the cheese | E |
| - | |
| Cook has gone and all is dark | F |
| Then the kitchen is your park | F |
| In the garbage heap that she leaves | G |
| Do you browse among the tea leaves | G |
| - | |
| How delightful to suspect | H |
| All the places you have trekked | H |
| Does your long antenna whisk its | I |
| Gentle tip across the biscuits | J |
| - | |
| Do you linger little soul | K |
| Drowsing in our sugar bowl | K |
| Or abandonment most utter | L |
| Shake a shimmy on the butter | L |
| - | |
| Do you chant your simple tunes | M |
| Swimming in the baby's prunes | M |
| Then when dawn comes do you slink | F |
| Homeward to the kitchen sink | F |
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| Timid roach why be so shy | N |
| We are brothers thou and I | N |
| In the midnight like yourself | B |
| I explore the pantry shelf | B |
Christopher Morley
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