The Crooked Stick Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBDEDEEFGHGG| First Traveller What's that lying in the dust | A |
| Second Traveller A crooked stick | B |
| First Traveller What's it worth if you can trust to arithmetic | B |
| Second Traveller Isn't this a riddle | C |
| First Traveller No a trick | B |
| Second Traveller It's worthless leave it where it lies | D |
| First Traveller Wait count ten | E |
| Rub a little dust upon your eyes | D |
| Now look again | E |
| Second Traveller Well and what the devil is it then | E |
| First Traveller It's the sort of crooked stick that shepherds know | F |
| Second Traveller Someone's loss | G |
| First Traveller Bend it and you make of it a bow | H |
| Break it a cross | G |
| Second Traveller But it's all grown over with moss | G |
Elinor Morton Wylie
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