Don't You See? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEE FF GGHH IJ| The day was hotter than words can tell | A |
| So hot the jelly fish wouldn't jell | A |
| The halibut went all to butter | B |
| And the catfish had only force to utter | B |
| A faint sea mew aye though some have doubted | C |
| The carp he capered and the horn pout pouted | C |
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| The sardonic sardine had his sly heart's wish | D |
| When the angelfish fought with the paradise fish | D |
| 'T was a sight gave the bluefish the blues to see | E |
| But the seal concealed a wicked glee | E |
| - | |
| The day it went from bad to worse | F |
| Till the pickerel picked the purse crab's purse | F |
| - | |
| And the crab felt crabedder yet no doubt | G |
| Because the oyster would n't shell out | G |
| The sculpin would sculp but had n't a model | H |
| And the coddlefish begged for something to coddle | H |
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| But to both the dolphin refused its doll | I |
| Till the whale was oblidged to whale them all | J |
Katharine Lee Bates
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