The Tortoise In Eternity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| Within my house of patterned horn | A |
| I sleep in such a bed | B |
| As men may keep before they're born | A |
| And after when they're dead | B |
| - | |
| Sticks and stones may break their bones | C |
| And words may make them bleed | D |
| There is not one of them who owns | C |
| An armour to his need | D |
| - | |
| Tougher than hide or lozenged bark | E |
| Snow storm and thunder proof | F |
| And quick with sun and thick with dark | E |
| Is this my darling roof | F |
| - | |
| Men's troubled dreams of death and birth | G |
| Puls mother o' pearl to black | H |
| I bear the rainbow bubble Earth | G |
| Square on my scornful back | H |
Elinor Morton Wylie
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