The Llama Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCBDDBEEEEB| The Llama is a wooly sort of fleecy hairy goat | A |
| With an indolent expression and an undulating throat | A |
| Like an unsuccessful literary man | B |
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| And I know the place he lives in or at least I think I do | C |
| It is Ecuador Brazil or Chile possibly Peru | C |
| You must find it in the Atlas if you can | B |
| The Llama of the Pampasses you never should confound | D |
| In spite of a deceptive similarity of sound | D |
| With the Llama who is Lord of Turkestan | B |
| For the former is a beautiful and valuable beast | E |
| But the latter is not lovable nor useful in the least | E |
| And the Ruminant is preferable surely to the Priest | E |
| Who battens on the woful superstitions of the East | E |
| The Mongol of the Monastery of Shan | B |
Hilaire Belloc
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