The Domineering Eagle And The Inventive Bratling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFGHGH DIDIAJAJ KLKLMNON GPEPMQMR STSTUDUD| O'er a small suburban borough | A |
| Once an eagle used to fly | B |
| Making observations thorough | A |
| From his station in the sky | B |
| And presenting the appearance | C |
| Of an animated V | D |
| Like the gulls that lend coherence | C |
| Unto paintings of the sea | D |
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| Looking downward at a church in | E |
| This attractive little shire | F |
| He beheld a smallish urchin | G |
| Shooting arrows at the spire | F |
| In a spirit of derision | G |
| Look alive the eagle said | H |
| And with infinite precision | G |
| Dropped a feather on his head | H |
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| Then the boy annoyed distinctly | D |
| By the freedom of the bird | I |
| Voiced his anger quite succinctly | D |
| In a single scathing word | I |
| And he sat him on a barrow | A |
| And he fashioned of this same | J |
| Eagle's feather such an arrow | A |
| As was worthy of the name | J |
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| Then he tried his bow and stringing | K |
| It with caution and with care | L |
| Sent that arrow singing winging | K |
| Towards the eagle in the air | L |
| Straight it went without an error | M |
| And the target bathed in blood | N |
| Lurched and lunged and fell to terra | O |
| Firma landing with a thud | N |
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| Bird of freedom quoth the urchin | G |
| With an unrelenting frown | P |
| You shall decorate a perch in | E |
| The menagerie in town | P |
| But of feathers quite a cluster | M |
| I shall first remove for Ma | Q |
| Thanks to you she'll have a duster | M |
| For her precious objets d'art | R |
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| And THE MORAL is that pride is | S |
| The precursor of a fall | T |
| Those beneath you to deride is | S |
| Not expedient at all | T |
| Howsoever meek and humble | U |
| Your inferiors may be | D |
| They perchance may make you tumble | U |
| So respect them Q E D | D |
Guy Wetmore Carryl
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