A Moral Alphabet (excerpt) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LMM N| D The Dreadful Dinotherium he | A |
| Will have to do his best for D | A |
| The early world observed with awe | B |
| His back indented like a saw | C |
| His look was gay his voice was strong | D |
| His tail was neither short nor long | D |
| His trunk or elongated nose | E |
| Was not so large as some suppose | E |
| His teeth as all the world allows | F |
| Were graminivorous like a cow's | F |
| He therefore should have wished to pass | G |
| Long peaceful nights upon the Grass | G |
| But being mad the brute preferred | H |
| To roost in branches like a bird | H |
| A creature heavier than a whale | I |
| You see at once could hardly fail | I |
| To suffer badly when he slid | J |
| And tumbled as he always did | J |
| His fossil therefore comes to light | K |
| All broken up and serve him right | K |
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| MORAL | L |
| If you were born to walk the ground | M |
| Remain there do not fool around | M |
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| E stands for Egg | N |
Hilaire Belloc
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