The Rat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBBA DEDEDE| As often as he let himself be seen | A |
| We pitied him or scorned him or deplored | B |
| The inscrutable profusion of the Lord | B |
| Who shaped as one of us a thing so mean | A |
| Who made him human when he might have been | C |
| A rat and so been wholly in accord | B |
| With any other creature we abhorred | B |
| As always useless and not always clean | A |
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| Now he is hiding all alone somewhere | D |
| And in a final hole not ready then | E |
| For now he is among those over there | D |
| Who are not coming back to us again | E |
| And we who do the fiction of our share | D |
| Say less of rats and rather more of men | E |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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