The Ass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ KK LL MM NN OO PPI 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 |
Clive Staples Lewis
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