The Tiger Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE| In the still jungle of the senses lay | A |
| A tiger soundly sleeping till one day | A |
| A bold young hunter chanced to come that way | A |
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| How calm he said that splendid creature lies | B |
| I long to rouse him into swift surprise | B |
| The well aimed arrow shot from amorous eyes | B |
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| And lo the tiger rouses up and turns | C |
| A coal of fire his glowing eyeball burns | C |
| His mighty frame with savage hunger yearns | C |
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| He crouches for a spring his eyes dilate | D |
| Alas bold hunter what shall be thy fate | D |
| Thou canst not fly it is too late too late | D |
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| Once having tasted human flesh ah then | E |
| Woe woe unto the whole rash world of men | E |
| The wakened tiger will not sleep again | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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