The Djolan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB AACC DDEE FFAA GGHA IJKK LLAA MMNN AADDSoft 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 |
Ellis Parker Butler
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