The Whale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH| The Whale is found in seas and oceans | A |
| Indulging there in fishlike motions | A |
| But Science shows that Whales are mammals | B |
| Like Jersey cows and goats and camels | B |
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| When undisturbed the Whale will browse | C |
| Like camels goats and Jersey cows | C |
| On food that satisfies its tongue | D |
| Thus making milk to feed its young | D |
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| Asking no costly hay and oats | E |
| Like camels Jersey cows and goats | E |
| The Whale prolific milk producer | F |
| Should be our cheapest lactic juicer | F |
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| Our milk should all come from the sea | G |
| But who I ask would want to be | G |
| And here the proposition fails | H |
| The milkmaid to a herd of Whales | H |
Ellis Parker Butler
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