The Lobster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBBEBB FGHAIJKLAMNOJHP QJRSTUV B| Here at the Super Duper in a glass tank | A |
| Supplied by a rill of cold fresh water | B |
| Running down a glass washboard at one end | C |
| And siphoned off at the other and so | D |
| Perpetually renewed a herd of lobster | B |
| Is made available to the customer | B |
| Who may choose whichever one he wants | E |
| To carry home and drop into boiling water | B |
| And serve with a sauce of melted butter | B |
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| Meanwhile the beauty of strangeness marks | F |
| These creatures who move when they do | G |
| With a slow vague wavering of claws | H |
| The somnambulist s effortless clambering | A |
| As he crawls over the shell of a dream | I |
| Resembling himself Their velvet colors | J |
| Mud red bruise purple cadaver green | K |
| Speckled with black their camouflage at home | L |
| Make them conspicuous here in the strong | A |
| Day imitating light the incommensurable | M |
| Philosophers and at the same time victims | N |
| Herded together in the marketplace asleep | O |
| Except for certain tentative gestures | J |
| Of their antennae or their imperial claws | H |
| Pegged shut with a whittled stick at the wrist | P |
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| We inlanders buying our needful food | Q |
| Pause over these slow gigantic spiders | J |
| That spin not We pause and are bemused | R |
| And sometimes it happens that a mind sinks down | S |
| To the blind abyss in a swirl of sand goes cold | T |
| And archaic in a carapace of horn | U |
| Thinking There's something underneath the world | V |
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| The flame beneath the pot that boils the water | B |
Howard Nemerov
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