Robin's Mistake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE FGC AHIH GJGJKBCB LMNMO PK| What do you think Red Robin | A |
| Found by a mow of hay | B |
| Why a flask brimful of liquor | C |
| That the mowers brought that day | B |
| To slake their thirst in the hayfield | D |
| And Robin he shook his head | E |
| 'Now I wonder what they call it | F |
| And how it tastes ' he said | E |
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| 'I have seen the mowers drink it | F |
| Why isn't it good for me | G |
| So I'll just draw out the stopper | C |
| And get at the stuff and see ' | - |
| But alas for the curious Robin | A |
| One draught and he burned his throat | H |
| From his bill to his poor crop's lining | I |
| And he could not utter a note | H |
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| And his head grew light and dizzy | G |
| And he staggered left and right | J |
| Tipped over the flask of brandy | G |
| And spilled it every mite | J |
| But after awhile he sobered | K |
| And quietly flew away | B |
| And he never has tasted liquor | C |
| Or touched it since that day | B |
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| But I heard him say to his kindred | L |
| In the course of a friendly chat | M |
| 'These men think they are above us | N |
| Yet they drink such stuff as that | M |
| Oh the poor degraded creatures | O |
| I am glad I am only a bird ' | - |
| Then he flew up over the meadow | P |
| And that was all I heard | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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