Plymouth Rock Joe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMAAKKANK HOLKOKKOPOQ| Why are you running so fast hither and thither | A |
| Chasing midges or butterflies | B |
| Some of you are standing solemnly scratching for grubs | C |
| Some of you are waiting for corn to be scattered | D |
| This is life is it | E |
| Cock a doodle do Very well Thomas Rhodes | F |
| You are cock of the walk no doubt | G |
| But here comes Elliott Hawkins | H |
| Gluck Gluck Gluck attracting political followers | I |
| Quah quah quah why so poetical Minerva | J |
| This gray morning | K |
| Kittie quah quah for shame Lucius Atherton | L |
| The raucous squawk you evoked from the throat | M |
| Of Aner Clute will be taken up later | A |
| By Mrs Benjamin Pantier as a cry | A |
| Of votes for women Ka dook dook | K |
| What inspiration has come to you Margaret Fuller Slack | K |
| And why does your gooseberry eye | A |
| Flit so liquidly Tennessee Claflin Shope | N |
| Are you trying to fathom the esotericism of an egg | K |
| Your voice is very metallic this morning Hortense Robbins | H |
| Almost like a guinea hen's | O |
| Quah That was a guttural sigh Isaiah Beethoven | L |
| Did you see the shadow of the hawk | K |
| Or did you step upon the drumsticks | O |
| Which the cook threw out this morning | K |
| Be chivalric heroic or aspiring | K |
| Metaphysical religious or rebellious | O |
| You shall never get out of the barnyard | P |
| Except by way of over the fence | O |
| Mixed with potato peelings and such into the trough | Q |
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