The Pelican Chorus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAACC DDEEFFGGHHIJAACC KKLLMMBBNNOOAACC PPQQRRBB KKSSTTUUBBVVAACC WWNNXXYZXXA2A2AACC| King and Queen of the Pelicans we | A |
| No other Birds so grand we see | A |
| None but we have feet like fins | B |
| With lovely leathery throats and chins | B |
| Ploffskin Pluffskin Pelican jee | A |
| We think no Birds so happy as we | A |
| Plumpskin Ploshkin Pelican jill | C |
| We think so then and we thought so still | C |
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| We live on the Nile The Nile we love | D |
| By night we sleep on the cliffs above | D |
| By day we fish and at eve we stand | E |
| On long bare islands of yellow sand | E |
| And when the sun sinks slowly down | F |
| And the great rock walls grow dark and brown | F |
| Where the purple river rolls fast and dim | G |
| And the Ivory Ibis starlike skim | G |
| Wing to wing we dance around | H |
| Stamping our feet with a flumpy sound | H |
| Opening our mouths as Pelicans ought | I |
| And this is the song we nighly snort | J |
| Ploffskin Pluffskin Pelican jee | A |
| We think no Birds so happy as we | A |
| Plumpskin Ploshkin Pelican jill | C |
| We think so then and we thought so still | C |
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| Last year came out our daughter Dell | K |
| And all the Birds received her well | K |
| To do her honour a feast we made | L |
| For every bird that can swim or wade | L |
| Herons and Gulls and Cormorants black | M |
| Cranes and flamingoes with scarlet back | M |
| Plovers and Storks and Geese in clouds | B |
| Swans and Dilberry Ducks in crowds | B |
| Thousands of Birds in wondrous flight | N |
| They ate and drank and danced all night | N |
| And echoing back from the rocks you heard | O |
| Multitude echoes from Bird to bird | O |
| Ploffskin Pluffskin Pelican jee | A |
| We think no Birds so happy as we | A |
| Plumpskin Ploshkin Pelican jill | C |
| We think so then and we thought so still | C |
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| Yes they came and among the rest | P |
| The King of the Cranes all grandly dressed | P |
| Such a lovely tail Its feathers float | Q |
| between the ends of his blue dress coat | Q |
| With pea green trowsers all so neat | R |
| And a delicate frill to hide his feet | R |
| For though no one speaks of it every one knows | B |
| He has got no webs between his toes | B |
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| As soon as he saw our Daughter Dell | K |
| In violent love that Crane King fell | K |
| On seeing her waddling form so fair | S |
| With a wreath of shrimps in her short white hair | S |
| And before the end of the next long day | T |
| Our Dell had given her heart away | T |
| For the King of the Cranes had won that heart | U |
| With a Crocodile's egg and a large fish tart | U |
| She vowed to marry the King of the Cranes | B |
| Leaving the Nile for stranges plains | B |
| And away they flew in a gathering crowd | V |
| Of endless birds in a lengthening cloud | V |
| Ploffskin Pluffskin Pelican jee | A |
| We think no Birds so happy as we | A |
| Plumpskin Ploshkin Pelican jill | C |
| We think so then and we thought so still | C |
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| And far away in the twilight sky | W |
| We heard them singing a lessening cry | W |
| Farther and farther till out of sight | N |
| And we stood alone in thesilent night | N |
| Often since in the nights of June | X |
| We sit on the sand and watch the moon | X |
| She has gone to the great Gromboolian plain | Y |
| And we probably never shall meet again | Z |
| Oft in the long still nights of June | X |
| We sit on the rocks and watch the moon | X |
| She dwells by the streams of the Chankly Bore | A2 |
| And we probably never shall see her more | A2 |
| Ploffskin Pluffskin Pelican jee | A |
| We think no Birds so happy as we | A |
| Plumpskin Ploshkin Pelican jill | C |
| We think so then and we thought so still | C |
Edward Lear
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