The Sheep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ| The Sheep adorns the landscape rural | A |
| And is both singular and plural | A |
| It gives grammarians the creeps | B |
| To hear one say A flock of sheeps | B |
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| The Sheep is gentle meek and mild | C |
| And led in herds by man or child | C |
| Being less savage than the rabbit | D |
| Sheep are gregarious by habit | D |
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| The Sheep grows wool and thus promotes | E |
| The making of vests pants and coats | E |
| Vests pants and coats and woolen cloths | F |
| Provide good food for hungry moths | F |
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| With vegetables added to | G |
| The Sheep we get our mutton stew | G |
| Experiments long since revealed | H |
| The Sheep should first be killed and peeled | H |
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| Thus with our debt to them so deep | I |
| All men should cry Praise be for Sheep | I |
| And if we happen to be shepherds | J |
| Praise be they're not as fierce as leopards | J |
Ellis Parker Butler
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