The Merman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDBCD A CEFEGFGBBHCCH A IIJIKHHKBHFFCHHHLMHH| I | A |
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| Who would be | B |
| A merman gay | C |
| Singing alone | D |
| Sitting alone | D |
| With a mermaid's knee | B |
| For instance hey | C |
| For a throne | D |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| I would be a merman gay | C |
| I would sit and sing the whole day long | E |
| I would fill my lungs with the strongest brine | F |
| And squirt it up in a spray of song | E |
| And soak my head in my liquid voice | G |
| I'd curl my tail in curves divine | F |
| And let each curve in a kink rejoice | G |
| I'd tackle the mermaids under the sea | B |
| And yank 'em around till they yanked me | B |
| Sportively sportively | H |
| And then we would wiggle away away | C |
| To the pea green groves on the coast of day | C |
| Chasing each other sportively | H |
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| III | A |
| - | |
| There would be neither moon nor star | I |
| But the waves would twang like a wet guitar | I |
| Low thunder and thrum in the darkness grum | J |
| Neither moon nor star | I |
| We would shriek aloud in the dismal dales | K |
| Shriek at each other and squawk and squeal | H |
| All night rakishly rakishly | H |
| They would pelt me with oysters and wiggletails | K |
| Laughing and clapping their hands at me | B |
| All night prankishly prankishly | H |
| But I would toss them back in mine | F |
| Lobsters and turtles of quaint design | F |
| Then leaping out in an abrupt way | C |
| I'd snatch them bald in my devilish glee | H |
| And skip away when they snatched at me | H |
| Fiendishly fiendishly | H |
| O what a jolly life I'd lead | L |
| Ah what a bang up life indeed | M |
| Soft are the mermaids under the sea | H |
| We would live merrily merrily | H |
James Whitcomb Riley
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