The Rivals Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFGHHII JJKKLLCCC| Said the Bicycle to the Automobile | A |
| How high and mighty and gay you feel | A |
| Yet I can remember the day when I | B |
| Would let no other one pass me by | B |
| Cart horse and roadster and racehorse too | C |
| Far ahead of them all I flew | C |
| Now my tires are unpumped and my warning bell | D |
| The attention of nobody can compel | D |
| - | |
| Though you maim your thousands where I hurt one | E |
| Though ten times my farthest is your day's run | E |
| Still I have been learning while lying here | F |
| That a rival's coming for you to fear | G |
| I have heard them talk of a wonderful thing | H |
| That can fly in the air like a bird on the wing | H |
| That can carry a man over land over sea | I |
| In a twinkling he is where he wishes to be | I |
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| So swiftly it speeds in a week and a day | J |
| One may girdle the globe I have heard them say | J |
| While you are contented from dawn to dark | K |
| With a few score miles to have made your mark | K |
| The giant throughout his quivering frame | L |
| Felt the truth that was mixed with his rival's blame | L |
| I'll never be such a clod as you | C |
| He sputtered as off on the road he flew | C |
| And his end the Bicycle never knew | C |
Helen Leah Reed
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