A Make-believe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFDDGHGIIAA JEJJEJJKKLLC DDCDDLLLDD MMMMNNNMONNMPMMMMJJM MMLLMQ JJJJQRRM SJJSMMMJTTMMUU JJVVVJJPJJJP WXWXYYZZJMJMMA2MA2PP PSSSSLL LSLJJSMM A2A2A2LMMLLLMJLJP A2A2MMSSJP RRSSJS| I will think as thinks the rabbit | A |
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| Oh delight | B |
| In the night | B |
| When the moon | C |
| Sets the tune | C |
| To the woods | D |
| And the broods | D |
| All run out | E |
| Frisk about | E |
| Go and come | F |
| Beat the drum | F |
| Here in groups | D |
| There in troops | D |
| Now there's one | G |
| Now it's gone | H |
| There are none | G |
| And now they are dancing like chaff | I |
| I look and I laugh | I |
| But sit by my door and keep to my habit | A |
| A wise respectable clean furred old rabbit | A |
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| Now I'm going | J |
| Business calls me out | E |
| Going going | J |
| Very knowing | J |
| Slow long heeled and stout | E |
| Loping lumbering | J |
| Nipping numbering | J |
| Head on this side and on that | K |
| Along the pathway footed flat | K |
| Through the meadow through the heather | L |
| Through the rich dusky weather | L |
| Big stars and little moon | C |
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| Dews are lighting down in crowds | D |
| Odours rising in thin clouds | D |
| Night has all her chords in tune | C |
| The very night for us God's rabbits | D |
| Suiting all our little habits | D |
| Wind not loud but playful with our fur | L |
| Just a cool a sweet a gentle stir | L |
| And all the way not one rough bur | L |
| But the dewiest freshest grasses | D |
| That whisper thanks to every foot that passes | D |
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| I the king the rest call Mappy | M |
| Canter on composed and happy | M |
| Till I come where there is plenty | M |
| For a varied meal and dainty | M |
| Is it cabbage I grab it | N |
| Is it parsley I nab it | N |
| Is it carrot I mar it | N |
| The turnip I turn up | M |
| And hollow and swallow | O |
| A lettuce Let us eat it | N |
| A beetroot Let's beat it | N |
| If you are juicy | M |
| Sweet sir I will use you | P |
| For all kinds of corn crop | M |
| I have a born crop | M |
| Are you a green top | M |
| You shall be gleaned up | M |
| Sucking and feazing | J |
| Crushing and squeezing | J |
| All that is feathery | M |
| Crisp not leathery | M |
| Juicy and bruisy | M |
| All comes proper | L |
| To my little hopper | L |
| Still on the dance | M |
| Driven by hunger and drouth | Q |
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| All is welcome to my crunching | J |
| Finding grinding | J |
| Milling munching | J |
| Gobbling lunching | J |
| Fore toothed three lipped mouth | Q |
| Eating side way round way flat way | R |
| Eating this way eating that way | R |
| Every way at once | M |
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| Hark to the rain | S |
| Pattering clattering | J |
| The cabbage leaves battering | J |
| Down it comes amain | S |
| Home we hurry | M |
| Hop and scurry | M |
| And in with a flurry | M |
| Hustling jostling | J |
| Out of the airy land | T |
| Into the dry warm sand | T |
| Our family white tails | M |
| The last of our vitals | M |
| Following hard with a whisk to them | U |
| And with a great sense of risk to them | U |
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| Hear to it pouring | J |
| Hear the thunder roaring | J |
| Far off and up high | V |
| While we all lie | V |
| So warm and so dry | V |
| In the mellow dark | J |
| Where never a spark | J |
| White or rosy or blue | P |
| Of the sheeting fleeting | J |
| Forking frightening | J |
| Lashing lightning | J |
| Ever can come through | P |
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| Let the wind chafe | W |
| In the trees overhead | X |
| We are quite safe | W |
| In our dark yellow bed | X |
| Let the rain pour | Y |
| It never can bore | Y |
| A hole in our roof | Z |
| It is waterproof | Z |
| So is the cloak | J |
| We always carry | M |
| We furry folk | J |
| In sandhole or quarry | M |
| It is perfect bliss | M |
| To lie in a nest | A2 |
| So soft as this | M |
| All so warmly drest | A2 |
| No one to flurry you | P |
| No one to hurry you | P |
| No one to scurry you | P |
| Holes plenty to creep in | S |
| All day to sleep in | S |
| All night to roam in | S |
| Gray dawn to run home in | S |
| And all the days and nights to come after | L |
| All the to morrows for hind legs and laughter | L |
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| Now the rain is over | L |
| We are out again | S |
| Every merry leaping rover | L |
| On his right leg and his wrong leg | J |
| On his doubled shortened long leg | J |
| Floundering amain | S |
| Oh it is merry | M |
| And jolly yes very | M |
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| But what what is that | A2 |
| What can he be at | A2 |
| Is it a cat | A2 |
| Ah my poor little brother | L |
| He's caught in the trap | M |
| That goes to with a snap | M |
| Ah me there was never | L |
| Nor will be for ever | L |
| There was never such another | L |
| Such a funny funny bunny | M |
| Such a frisking such a whisking | J |
| Such a frolicking brother | L |
| He's screeching beseeching | J |
| They're going to | P |
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| Ah my poor foot | A2 |
| It is caught in a root | A2 |
| No no 'tis a trap | M |
| That goes to with a snap | M |
| Ah me I'm forsaken | S |
| Ah me I am taken | S |
| I am screeching beseeching | J |
| They are going to | P |
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| No more no more I must stop this play | R |
| Be a boy again and kneel down and pray | R |
| To the God of sparrows and rabbits and men | S |
| Who never lets any one out of his ken | S |
| It must be so though it be bewild'ring | J |
| To save his dear beasts from his cruel children | S |
George Macdonald
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