Djolan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB AACC DDEE FFAA GGHA IJKK LLAA MMNN AADD O| Soft was the night the eve how airy | A |
| When through the big fat dictionary | A |
| I wandered on in careless ease | B |
| And read the a's b's c's and d's | B |
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| But stop What is this form I see | A |
| Beginning with a hump backed d | A |
| I pause I gasp I falter there | C |
| It is the djolan I declare | C |
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| It is the djolan wond'rous word | D |
| The Buceros plicatus bird | D |
| Ne'er ne'er before had I the bliss | E |
| To meet a djolly word like this | E |
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| 'Twas djust before my dinner hour | F |
| Well let the djuicy djoint go sour | F |
| Djoyful I read I djust must see | A |
| What this strange djolan word may be | A |
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| Ah ha It is a noun A noun | G |
| A ''name word as we say in town | G |
| E Ind The native name of the | H |
| Year bird These are the words I see | A |
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| A hornbill with a white tail and | I |
| The big book trembles in my hand | J |
| plicated membrane at the base | K |
| Ah well a day If that's the case | K |
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| base of the beak inhabiting | L |
| Oh dictionary wond'rous thing | L |
| the Sunda Islands Where would we | A |
| Without our dictionary be | A |
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| Malacca e t c That's all | M |
| I let the dictionary fall | M |
| I am replete All is explained | N |
| Knowledge it's power is what I've gained | N |
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| Soft was the night the eve how airy | A |
| I read no more the dictionary | A |
| But Oh and Oh my heart was stirred | D |
| To learn the djolan was a bird | D |
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| Submitted by John Martin | O |
Ellis Parker Butler
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