The Snake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKJ LMNO PQRR STUT| A narrow fellow in the grass | A |
| Occasionally rides | B |
| You may have met him did you not | C |
| His notice sudden is | D |
| - | |
| The grass divides as with a comb | E |
| A spotted shaft is seen | F |
| And then it closes at your feet | G |
| And opens further on | H |
| - | |
| He likes a boggy acre | I |
| A floor too cool for corn | J |
| Yet when a child and barefoot | K |
| I more than once at morn | J |
| - | |
| Have passed I thought a whip lash | L |
| Unbraiding in the sun | M |
| When stooping to secure it | N |
| It wrinkled and was gone | O |
| - | |
| Several of nature's people | P |
| I know and they know me | Q |
| I feel for them a transport | R |
| Of cordiality | R |
| - | |
| But never met this fellow | S |
| Attended or alone | T |
| Without a tighter breathing | U |
| And zero at the bone | T |
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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