The Manlet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBD BCBCBEBE BFBFBCBC GHGHGIGI JBJBBKBK LMLGNGN OBOBPQPQ BRBRSTS PUPUBVBVIn stature the Manlet was dwarfish | A |
No burly big Blunderbore he | B |
And he wearily gazed on the crawfish | A |
His Wifelet had dressed for his tea | B |
'Now reach me sweet Atom my gunlet | B |
And hurl the old shoelet for luck | C |
Let me hie to the bank of the runlet | B |
And shoot thee a Duck ' | D |
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She has reached him his minikin gunlet | B |
She has hurled the old shoelet for luck | C |
She is busily baking a bunlet | B |
To welcome him home with his Duck | C |
On he speeds never wasting a wordlet | B |
Though thoughtlets cling closely as wax | E |
To the spot where the beautiful birdlet | B |
So quietly quacks | E |
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Where the Lobsterlet lurks and the Crablet | B |
So slowly and sleepily crawls | F |
Where the Dolphin's at home and the Dablet | B |
Pays long ceremonious calls | F |
Where the Grublet is sought by the Froglet | B |
Where the Frog is pursued by the Duck | C |
Where the Ducklet is chased by the Doglet | B |
So runs the world's luck | C |
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He has loaded with bullet and powder | G |
His footfall is noiseless as air | H |
But the Voices grow louder and louder | G |
And bellow and bluster and blare | H |
They bristle before him and after | G |
They flutter above and below | I |
Shrill shriekings of lubberly laughter | G |
Weird wailings of woe | I |
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They echo without him within him | J |
They thrill through his whiskers and beard | B |
Like a teetotum seeming to spin him | J |
With sneers never hitherto sneered | B |
'Avengement ' they cry 'on our Foelet | B |
Let the Manikin weep for our wrongs | K |
Let us drench him from toplet to toelet | B |
With Nursery Songs | K |
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'He shall muse upon 'Hey Diddle Diddle ' | - |
On the Cow that surmounted the Moon | L |
He shall rave of the Cat and the Fiddle | M |
And the Dish that eloped with the Spoon | L |
And his soul shall be sad for the Spider | G |
When Miss Muffet was sipping her whey | N |
That so tenderly sat down beside her | G |
And scared her away | N |
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'The music of Midsummer madness | O |
Shall sting him with many a bite | B |
Till in rapture of rollicking sadness | O |
He shall groan with a gloomy delight | B |
He shall swathe him like mists of the morning | P |
In platitudes luscious and limp | Q |
Such as deck with a deathless adorning | P |
The Song of the Shrimp | Q |
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'When the Ducklet's dark doom is decided | B |
We will trundle him home in a trice | R |
And the banquet so plainly provided | B |
Shall round into rose buds and rice | R |
In a blaze of pragmatic invention | S |
He shall wrestle with Fate and shall reign | T |
But he has not a friend fit to mention | S |
So hit him again ' | - |
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He has shot it the delicate darling | P |
And the Voices have ceased from their strife | U |
Not a whisper of sneering or snarling | P |
As he carries it home to his wife | U |
Then cheerily champing the bunlet | B |
His spouse was so skilful to bake | V |
He hies him once more to the runlet | B |
To fetch her the Drake | V |
Lewis Carroll
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