Cats Cradle Song, By A Babe In Knots Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BACA DEDE FFFF EEEE AAAA| Peter the Repeater | A |
| Platted round a platter | A |
| Slips of slivered paper | A |
| Basting them with batter | A |
| - | |
| Flype em slit em twist em | B |
| Lop looped laps of paper | A |
| Setting out the system | C |
| By the bones of Neper | A |
| - | |
| Clear your coil of kinkings | D |
| Into perfect plaiting | E |
| Locking loops and linkings | D |
| Interpenetrating | E |
| - | |
| Why should a man benighted | F |
| Beduped befooled besotted | F |
| Call knotful knittings plighted | F |
| Not knotty but beknotted | F |
| - | |
| It s monstrous horrid shocking | E |
| Beyond the power of thinking | E |
| Not to know interlocking | E |
| Is no mere form of linking | E |
| - | |
| But little Jacky Horner | A |
| Will teach you what is proper | A |
| So pitch him in his corner | A |
| Your silver and your copper | A |
James Clerk Maxwell
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