The Pobble Who Has No Toes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DDB A BEBEFGB A HIHIJJB KELEMMNO PQBQLLBB BRSRTTBI | A |
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The Pobble who has no toes | B |
Had once as many as we | C |
When they said 'Some day you may lose them all ' | - |
He replied 'Fish fiddle de dee ' | - |
And his Aunt Jobiska made him drink | D |
Lavender water tinged with pink | D |
For she said 'The World in general knows | B |
There's nothing so good for a Pobble's toes ' | - |
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II | A |
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The Pobble who has no toes | B |
Swam across the Bristol Channel | E |
But before he set out he wrapped his nose | B |
In a piece of scarlet flannel | E |
For his Aunt Jobiska said 'No harm | F |
'Can come to his toes if his nose is warm | G |
'And it's perfectly known that a Pobble's toes | B |
'Are safe provided he minds his nose ' | - |
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III | A |
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The Pobble swam fast and well | H |
And when boats or ships came near him | I |
He tinkedly binkledy winkled a bell | H |
So that all the world could hear him | I |
And all the Sailors and Admirals cried | J |
When they saw him nearing the further side | J |
'He has gone to fish for his Aunt Jobiska's | B |
'Runcible Cat with crimson whiskers ' | - |
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IV | - |
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But before he touched the shore | K |
The shore of the Bristol Channel | E |
A sea green Porpoise carried away | L |
His wrapper of scarlet flannel | E |
And when he came to observe his feet | M |
Formerly garnished with toes so neat | M |
His face at once became forlorn | N |
On perceiving that all his toes were gone | O |
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V | - |
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And nobody ever knew | P |
From that dark day to the present | Q |
Whoso had taken the Pobble's toes | B |
In a manner so far from pleasant | Q |
Whether the shrimps or crawfish gray | L |
Or crafty Mermaids stole them away | L |
Nobody knew and nobody knows | B |
How the Pebble was robbed of his twice five toes | B |
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VI | - |
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The Pobble who has no toes | B |
Was placed in a friendly Bark | R |
And they rowed him back and carried him up | S |
To his Aunt Jobiska's Park | R |
And she made him a feast at his earnest wish | T |
Of eggs and buttercups fried with fish | T |
And she said 'It's a fact the whole world knows | B |
'That Pebbles are happier without their toes ' | - |
Edward Lear
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