The Patrician Peacocks And The Overweening Jay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB DEDEFGGE GDGDHHHD DIDIHHHI JEJEDDDE KLKLMMML HEHENNNE| Once a flock of stately peacocks | A |
| Promenaded on a green | B |
| There were twenty two or three cocks | A |
| Each as proud as seventeen | B |
| And a glance however hasty | C |
| Showed their plumage to be tasty | C |
| Wheresoever one was placed he | C |
| Was a credit to the scene | B |
| - | |
| Now their owner had a daughter | D |
| Who when people came to call | E |
| Used to say You'd reelly oughter | D |
| See them peacocks on the mall | E |
| Now this wasn't to her credit | F |
| And her callers came to dread it | G |
| For the way the lady said it | G |
| Wasn't recherche at all | E |
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| But a jay that overheard it | G |
| From his perch upon a fir | D |
| Didn't take in how absurd it | G |
| Was to every one but her | D |
| When they answered You don't tell us | H |
| And to see the birds seemed zealous | H |
| He became extremely jealous | H |
| Wishing too to make a stir | D |
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| As the peacocks fed together | D |
| He would join them at their lunch | I |
| Culling here and there a feather | D |
| Till he'd gathered quite a bunch | I |
| Then this bird of ways perfidious | H |
| Stuck them on him most fastidious | H |
| Till he looked uncommon hideous | H |
| Like a Judy or a Punch | I |
| - | |
| But the peacocks when they saw him | J |
| One and all began to haul | E |
| And to harry and to claw him | J |
| Till the creature couldn't crawl | E |
| While their owner's vulgar daughter | D |
| When her startled callers sought her | D |
| And to see the struggle brought her | D |
| Only said They're on the maul | E |
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| It was really quite revolting | K |
| When the tumult died away | L |
| One would think he had been moulting | K |
| So dishevelled was the jay | L |
| He was more than merely slighted | M |
| He was more than disunited | M |
| He'd been simply dynamited | M |
| In the fervor of the fray | L |
| - | |
| And THE MORAL of the verses | H |
| Is That short men can't be tall | E |
| Nothing sillier or worse is | H |
| Than a jay upon a mall | E |
| And the jay opiniative | N |
| Who because he's imitative | N |
| Thinks he's highly decorative | N |
| Is the biggest jay of all | E |
Guy Wetmore Carryl
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