The Ants Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCDDCEBE| What wonder strikes the curious while he views | A |
| The black ant's city by a rotten tree | B |
| Or woodland bank In ignorance we muse | A |
| Pausing annoyed we know not what we see | B |
| Such government and thought there seem to be | B |
| Some looking on and urging some to toil | C |
| Dragging their loads of bent stalks slavishly | B |
| And what's more wonderful when big loads foil | C |
| One ant or two to carry quickly then | D |
| A swarm flock round to help their fellow men | D |
| Surely they speak a language whisperingly | C |
| Too fine for us to hear and sure their ways | E |
| Prove they have kings and laws and that they be | B |
| Deformed remnants of the Fairy days | E |
John Clare
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