Mouths Of Hippopotami And Some Recent Novels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FFBB GGHH CCII JJBB BBKH LLBB CCJJ| with apologies to Frederic Taber Cooper | A |
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| I well recall and who does not | B |
| The circus bill board hippopotamus | C |
| whose wide distended jaws | D |
| For fear and terror were good cause | E |
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| That month that vasty carmine cave | F |
| Could munch with ease a Nubian slave | F |
| In fact the bill board hippopot | B |
| amus could bolt a house and lot | B |
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| Wide opened that tremendous mouth | G |
| Obscured three quarters of the south | G |
| Side of Schmidt's barn and promised me | H |
| Thrills shocks delights and ecstasy | H |
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| And then alas what sad non plus | C |
| The living hippopotamus | C |
| 'Twas but a stupid sodden lump | I |
| As thrilling as an old elm stump | I |
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| Its mouth unreasonably small | J |
| The hippo opened not at all | J |
| Or if it did it was about | B |
| As thrilling as a teapot spout | B |
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| The Crimson Junk by Doris Watt | B |
| I've read it Who I pray has not | B |
| Bill Wastel by C Marrow The | K |
| Plaid Cowslip And The Hocking Lee | H |
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| The Fallow Field by Sally Loo | L |
| The Rose in Chains I've read that too | L |
| I've read them all for promised treat | B |
| Of thrills emotions tremblings sweet | B |
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| The bill board hippopotamus | C |
| It was a wild uprageous cuss | C |
| The real one Well Can you recall | J |
| That it had any mouth at all | J |
Ellis Parker Butler
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