The Quids Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCADAEAB FGHIJKAL BDMNAAAAAAAOLPP QLAARDSBDBB GSTAA AAUAAV| The little quids the million quids | A |
| The everywhere everything always quids | A |
| The atoms of the Monoton | B |
| Each turned three essences where it stood | C |
| And ground a gisty dust from its neighbors' edges | A |
| Until a powdery thoughtfall stormed in and out | D |
| The cerebration of a slippery quid enterprise | A |
| Each quid stirred | E |
| The united quids | A |
| Waved through a sinuous decision | B |
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| The quids that had never done anything before | F |
| But be be be be be | G |
| The quids resolved to predicate | H |
| And dissipate in a little grammar | I |
| Oh the Monoton didn't care | J |
| For whatever they did | K |
| The Monoton's contributing quids | A |
| The Monoton would always remain the same | L |
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| A quid here and there gyrated in place position | B |
| While many essential quids turned inside out | D |
| For the fun of it | M |
| And a few refused to be anything but | N |
| Simple unpredicated copulatives | A |
| Little by little this commotion of quids | A |
| By threes by tens by casual millions | A |
| Squirming within the state of things | A |
| The metaphysical acrobats | A |
| The naked immaterial quids | A |
| Turned inside on themselves | A |
| And came out dressed | O |
| Each similar quid of the inward same | L |
| Each similar quid dressed in a different way | P |
| The quid's idea of a holiday | P |
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| The quids could never tell what was happening | Q |
| But the Monoton felt itself differently the same | L |
| In its different parts | A |
| The silly quids upon their rambling exercise | A |
| Never knew could never tell | R |
| What their pleasure was about | D |
| What their carnival was like | S |
| Being in being in being always in | B |
| Where they never could get out | D |
| Of the everywhere everything always in | B |
| To derive themselves from the Monoton | B |
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| But I know with a quid inside of me | G |
| But I know what a quid's disguise is like | S |
| Being one myself | T |
| The gymnastic device | A |
| That a quid puts on for exercise | A |
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| And so should the trees | A |
| And so should the worms | A |
| And so should you | U |
| And all the other predicates | A |
| And all the other accessories | A |
| Of the quid's masquerade | V |
Laura (riding) Jackson
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