At The Museum Of Natural History Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DCEB FBBB BGHI IJKB IIGL MBNIIIOP BIBB QBD IDRB| The lessons we learned here | A |
| fumbling with our lunchbags | B |
| handkerchiefs | B |
| secret cheeks of bubblegum | C |
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| were graver than any | D |
| in the schoolroom | C |
| the dangers of a life | E |
| frozen into poses | B |
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| Trilobites in their | F |
| petrified ghettos | B |
| lumbering dinosaurs | B |
| who'd outsized themselves | B |
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| told how nature was | B |
| an endless morality play | G |
| in which the cockroach | H |
| all such beadyeyed | I |
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| exemplars of adjustment | I |
| might well recite the epilogue | J |
| No one was safe | K |
| but stagnation was | B |
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| the surest suicide | I |
| To mankind's Hamlet | I |
| what six legged creature would play | G |
| Fortinbras It made you scratch | L |
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| your head think | M |
| for about two minutes | B |
| Going out I remember | N |
| how we stopped to look at | I |
| Teddy Roosevelt | I |
| Soldier Statesman Naturalist | I |
| Hunter Historian | O |
| et cetera et cetera | P |
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| His bronze bulk four times life size | B |
| bestrode Central Park West | I |
| like a colossus | B |
| His monumental horse | B |
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| snorted towards the park | Q |
| Oh we were full of Evolution its lessons | B |
| When the girls giggling madly | D |
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| the boys blushing we peeked | I |
| between those huge legs to see | D |
| those awe inspiring | R |
| Brobdingnagian balls | B |
Erica Jong
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