The Duck And The Kangaroo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD B A BEBFF B A GHGHIIBB JFJFKKB F FLF MMBB| I | A |
| - | |
| Said the Duck to the Kangaroo | B |
| 'Good gracious how you hop | C |
| Over the fields and the water too | B |
| As if you never would stop | C |
| My life is a bore in this nasty pond | D |
| And I long to go out in the world beyond | D |
| I wish I could hop like you ' | - |
| Said the duck to the Kangaroo | B |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| 'Please give me a ride on your back ' | - |
| Said the Duck to the Kangaroo | B |
| 'I would sit quite still and say nothing but Quack | E |
| The whole of the long day through | B |
| And we'd go to the Dee and the Jelly Bo Lee | F |
| Over the land and over the sea | F |
| Please take me a ride O do ' | - |
| Said the Duck to the Kangaroo | B |
| - | |
| III | A |
| - | |
| Said the Kangaroo to the Duck | G |
| 'This requires some little reflection | H |
| Perhaps on the whole it might bring me luck | G |
| And there seems but one objection | H |
| Which is if you'll let me speak so bold | I |
| Your feet are unpleasantly wet and cold | I |
| And would probably give me the roo | B |
| Matiz ' said the Kangaroo | B |
| - | |
| IV | - |
| - | |
| Said the Duck 'As I sate on the rocks | J |
| I have thought over that completely | F |
| And I bought four pairs of worsted socks | J |
| Which fit my web feet neatly | F |
| And to keep out the cold I've bought a cloak | K |
| And every day a cigar I'll smoke | K |
| All to follow my own dear true | B |
| Love of a Kangaroo ' | - |
| - | |
| V | F |
| - | |
| Said the Kangaroo 'I'm ready | F |
| All in the moonlight pale | L |
| But to balance me well dear Duck sit steady | F |
| And quite at the end of my tail ' | - |
| So away they went with a hop and a bound | M |
| And they hopped the whole world three times round | M |
| And who so happy O who | B |
| As the duck and the Kangaroo | B |
Edward Lear
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Hema. 9nth class: The duck and the Kangaroo poem is very much like this