The Muscovy Duck Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGDD HHGGGGDD| The rooster is a brainless dude although he sports a crest | A |
| The hen s an awful fool we know though hen eggs are the best | A |
| She ll flutter cackling anywhere save through a gate or door | B |
| And try to hatch a door knob too for forty days or more | B |
| The turkey is of small account we ll let it go in peace | C |
| And other fowls are ornaments and geese are simply geese | C |
| But over all that cackle hiss or gobble quack or cluck | D |
| My favourite shall always be the quaint Muscovy duck | D |
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| I m fond of Mrs Muscovy I think she knows the most | E |
| Of all the different kinds of fowls that poultry breeders boast | E |
| She knows best how to build her nest when laying time is past | F |
| And you should see the knowing pride with which she sets at last | F |
| She waddles out for food and drink she s not afraid of us | G |
| And if we fix her now and then she doesn t make a fuss | G |
| No frantic flaps of useless wings no cackle hiss nor cluck | D |
| She s queen of all philosophers the quaint Muscovy duck | D |
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| It is a wondrous thing to see and a wondrous thing to tell | H |
| Her ducklings know as much as ducks the day they leave the shell | H |
| That she is proud as proud can be is plain to any dunce | G |
| The little ducklings set to work to grow up ducks at once | G |
| And on a sunny winter s day tis a good thing for the eyes | G |
| To see her waddle round and watch her ducklings catching flies | G |
| I love her for her waddle and her patience and her pluck | D |
| Her wag of tail and nod of head the quaint Muscovy duck | D |
Henry Lawson
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