Billy's Alphabetical Animal Show Poem Rhyme Scheme

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A was an elegant Ape	A
Who tied up his ears with red tape	A
And wore a long veil	B
Half revealing his tail	B
Which was trimmed with jet bugles and crape	A
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B was a boastful old Bear	C
Who used to say 'Hoomh I declare	C
I can eat if you'll get me	D
The children and let me	D
Ten babies teeth toenails and hair '	-
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C was a Codfish who sighed	E
When snatched from the home of his pride	E
But could he embrined	E
Guess this fragrance behind	E
How glad he would be that he died	E
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D was a dandified Dog	F
Who said 'Though it's raining like fog	G
I wear no umbrellah	B
Me boy for a fellah	B
Might just as well travel incog '	-
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E was an elderly Eel	B
Who would say 'Well I really feel	B
As my grandchildren wriggle	B
And shout 'I should giggle'	B
A trifle run down at the heel '	-
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F was a Fowl who conceded	E
Some hens might hatch more eggs than she did	E
But she'd children as plenty	E
As eighteen or twenty	E
And that was quite all that she needed	E
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G was a gluttonous Goat	E
Who dining one day table d'hote	E
Ordered soup bone au fait	E
And fish papier mache	H
And a filet of Spring overcoat	E
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H was a high cultured Hound	E
Who could clear forty feet at a bound	E
And a coon once averred	E
That his howl could be heard	E
For five miles and three quarters around	E
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I was an Ibex ambitious	I
To dive over chasms auspicious	I
He would leap down a peak	J
And not light for a week	J
And swear that the jump was delicious	I
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J was a Jackass who said	E
He had such a bad cold in his head	E
If it wasn't for leaving	K
The rest of us grieving	K
He'd really rather be dead	E
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K was a profligate Kite	E
Who would haunt the saloons every night	E
And often he ust	E
To reel back to his roost	E
Too full to set up on it right	E
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L was a wary old Lynx	L
Who would say 'Do you know wot I thinks	L
I thinks ef you happen	M
To ketch me a nappin'	M
I'm ready to set up the drinks '	-
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M was a merry old Mole	B
Who would snooze all the day in his hole	B
Then all night a rootin'	M
Around and galootin'	M
He'd sing 'Johnny Fill up the Bowl '	-
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N was a caustical Nautilus	I
Who sneered 'I suppose when they've caught all us	I
Like oysters they'll serve us	I
And can us preserve us	I
And barrel and pickle and bottle us '	-
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O was an autocrat Owl	B
Such a wise such a wonderful fowl	B
Why for all the night through	N
He would hoot and hoo hoo	N
And hoot and hoo hooter and howl	B
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P was a Pelican pet	E
Who gobbled up all he could get	E
He could eat on until	B
He was full to the bill	B
And there he had lodgings to let	E
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Q was a querulous Quail	B
Who said 'It will little avail	B
The efforts of those	O
Of my foes who propose	O
To attempt to put salt on my tail '	-
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R was a ring tailed Raccoon	M
With eyes of the tinge of the moon	M
And his nose a blue black	P
And the fur on his back	P
A sad sort of sallow maroon	M
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S is a Sculpin you'll wish	Q
Very much to have one on your dish	Q
Since all his bones grow	R
On the outside and so	R
He's a very desirable fish	Q
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T was a Turtle of wealth	S
Who went round with particular stealth	S
'Why ' said he 'I'm afraid	E
Of being waylaid	E
When I even walk out for my health '	-
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U was a Unicorn curious	I
With one horn of a growth so luxurious	I
He could level and stab it	E
If you didn't grab it	E
Clean through you he was so blamed furious	I
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V was a vagabond Vulture	T
Who said 'I don't want to insult yer	T
But when you intrude	E
Where in lone solitude	E
I'm a preyin' you're no man o' culture '	-
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W was a wild Wood chuck	U
And you can just bet that he could 'chuck'	U
He'd eat raw potatoes	O
Green corn and tomatoes	O
And tree roots and call it all ' good chuck '	-
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X was a kind of X cuse	O
Of a some sort o' thing that got loose	O
Before we could name it	E
And cage it and tame it	E
And bring it in general use	O
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Y is the Yellowbird bright	E
As a petrified lump of star light	E
Or a handful of lightning	U
Bugs squeezed in the tight'ning	U
Pink fist of a boy at night	E
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Z is the Zebra of course	O
A kind of a clown of a horse	O
Each other despising	U
Yet neither devising	U
A way to obtain a divorce	O
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here is the famous what is it	E
Walk up Master Billy and quiz it	E
You've seen the rest of 'em	V
Ain't this the best of 'em	V
Right at the end of your visit	E

James Whitcomb Riley

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