The Inhuman Wolf And The Lamb Sans Gene Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEG HIHHJ CKCCK LCMLC HCHHC| A gaunt and relentless wolf possessed | A |
| Of a quite insatiable thirst | B |
| Once paused at a stream to drink and rest | A |
| And found that bound on a similar quest | A |
| A lamb had arrived there first | B |
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| The lamb was a lamb of a garrulous mind | C |
| And frivolity most extreme | D |
| In the fashion common to all his kind | C |
| He cantered in front and galloped behind | C |
| And troubled the limpid stream | D |
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| My friend said the wolf with a winsome air | E |
| Your capers I can't admire | F |
| Go to quoth the lamb Though he said not where | E |
| He showed what he meant by his brazen stare | E |
| And the way that he gambolled higher | G |
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| My capers he cried are the kind that are | H |
| Invariably served with lamb | I |
| Remember this is a public bar | H |
| And I'll do as I please If your drink I mar | H |
| I don't give a tinker's | J |
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| He paused and glanced at the rivulet | C |
| And that pause than speech was worse | K |
| For his roving eye a saw mill met | C |
| And near it the word which should be set | C |
| At the end of the previous verse | K |
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| Said the wolf You are tough and may bring remorse | L |
| But of such is the world well rid | C |
| I've swallowed your capers I've swallowed your sauce | M |
| And it's plain to be seen that my only course | L |
| Is swallowing you He did | C |
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| THE MORAL The wisest lambs they are | H |
| Who when they're assailed by thirst | C |
| Keep well away from a public bar | H |
| For of all black sheep or near or far | H |
| The public bar lamb's worst | C |
Guy Wetmore Carryl
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