Snake And Potato Bug Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DEFGHC IICC CCJJ KKLL MMNN OOCC PPQQ| A TRUE TALE | A |
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| 'Can such things be and overcome us like a summer cloud | B |
| without our special wonder ' SHAKESPEAR | C |
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| In a grocery store in Ingersoll our attention was called to a copper headed | D |
| snake wriggling in a glass jar We noticed a peculiarity about its head but | E |
| soon found out it was a potato bug which was afraid of being drowned and | F |
| the only above water being the snake's head and neck it was fondly clinging | G |
| thereto There being 'no jutty frieze buttress or coigne of vantage where it | H |
| could make its pendant bed elsewhere | C |
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| Some poets they abroad do roam | I |
| But we find themes are near to home | I |
| As we do seldom travel far | C |
| This is a song of a glass jar | C |
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| Snake of species of the copper | C |
| And on its head there was live hopper | C |
| For we saw that funny sight | J |
| In a store it was last night | J |
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| There in water was a snake | K |
| And a bug so wide awake | K |
| He was afraid that he would drown | L |
| So he clomb up on the snake's crown | L |
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| This snake it is near a foot long | M |
| Which doth suffer this great wrong | M |
| It thinks the bug wants it to throttle | N |
| This makes it wriggle in the bottle | N |
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| But fondly the kind hearted bug | O |
| It doth its preserver hug | O |
| For the bug when on the water | C |
| It is only but a squatter | C |
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| And hath taken up homestead | P |
| On the top of the snake's head | P |
| And on the waters it doth float | Q |
| Safe and happy on this boat | Q |
James Mcintyre
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