The Microbe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH| The Microbe is so very small | A |
| You cannot make him out at all | A |
| But many sanguine people hope | B |
| To see him through a microscope | B |
| His jointed tongue that lies beneath | C |
| A hundred curious rows of teeth | C |
| His seven tufted tails with lots | D |
| Of lovely pink and purple spots | D |
| On each of which a pattern stands | E |
| Composed of forty separate bands | E |
| His eyebrows of a tender green | F |
| All these have never yet been seen | F |
| But Scientists who ought to know | G |
| Assure us that they must be so | G |
| Oh let us never never doubt | H |
| What nobody is sure about | H |
Hilaire Belloc
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