Trouvée Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADEF GHIB JKLM NAOA PFQR| Oh why should a hen | A |
| have been run over | B |
| on West th Street | C |
| in the middle of summer | B |
| - | |
| She was a white hen | A |
| red and white now of course | D |
| How did she get there | E |
| Where was she going | F |
| - | |
| Her wing feathers spread | G |
| flat flat in the tar | H |
| all dirtied and thin | I |
| as tissue paper | B |
| - | |
| A pigeon yes | J |
| or an English sparrow | K |
| might meet such a fate | L |
| but not that poor fowl | M |
| - | |
| Just now I went back | N |
| to look again | A |
| I hadn't dreamed it | O |
| there is a hen | A |
| - | |
| turned into a quaint | P |
| old country saying | F |
| scribbled in chalk | Q |
| except for the beak | R |
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