The Lemmings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGH| Once in a hundred years the Lemmings come | A |
| Westward in search of food over the snow | B |
| Westward until the salt sea drowns them dumb | A |
| Westward till all are drowned those Lemmings go | B |
| Once it is thought there was a westward land | C |
| Now drowned where there was food for those starved things | D |
| And memory of the place has burnt its brand | C |
| In the little brains of all the Lemming Kings | D |
| Perhaps long since there was a land beyond | E |
| Westward from death some city some calm place | F |
| Where one could taste God's quiet and be fond | E |
| With the little beauty of a human face | F |
| But now the land is drowned Yet we still press | G |
| Westward in search to death to nothingness | H |
John Masefield
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