The Camel And The Floating Sticks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDDEEFEEGHIIH HJJH| The first who saw the humpback'd camel | A |
| Fled off for life the next approach'd with care | B |
| The third with tyrant rope did boldly dare | B |
| The desert wanderer to trammel | A |
| Such is the power of use to change | C |
| The face of objects new and strange | C |
| Which grow by looking at so tame | D |
| They do not even seem the same | D |
| And since this theme is up for our attention | E |
| A certain watchman I will mention | E |
| Who seeing something far | F |
| Away upon the ocean | E |
| Could not but speak his notion | E |
| That 'twas a ship of war | G |
| Some minutes more had past | H |
| A bomb ketch 'twas without a sail | I |
| And then a boat and then a bale | I |
| And floating sticks of wood at last | H |
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| Full many things on earth I wot | H |
| Will claim this tale and well they may | J |
| They're something dreadful far away | J |
| But near at hand they're not | H |
Jean De La Fontaine
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