The Pig's Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB ADDCCD AEEEEE ACCCCC FGFFFG HGHHHG IGIIIG JGJJJG KGKKKG LGLLLG EGEEEG EGEEEG MGMMMG NGNNNG OGOOOG ACCPQC ARRAAR ASSAAS TGTTTG FGFFFG EGEERG AUURRU ACCUUC AVVWWVLittle Birds are dining | A |
Warily and well | B |
Hid in mossy cell Hid I say by waiters | C |
Gorgeous in their gaiters | C |
I've a Tale to tell | B |
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Little Birds are feeding | A |
Justices with jam | D |
Rich in frizzled ham | D |
Rich I say in oysters | C |
Haunting shady cloisters | C |
That is what I am | D |
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Little Birds are teaching | A |
Tigresses to smile | E |
Innocent of guile | E |
Smile I say not smirkle | E |
Mouth a semicircle | E |
That's the proper style | E |
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Little Birds are sleeping | A |
All among the pins | C |
Where the loser wins | C |
Where I say he sneezes | C |
When and how he pleases | C |
So the Tale begins | C |
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There was a Pig that sat alone | F |
Beside a ruined Pump | G |
By day and night he made his moan | F |
It would have stirred a heart of stone | F |
To see him wring his hoofs and groan | F |
Because he could not jump | G |
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A certain Camel heard him shout | H |
A Camel with a hump | G |
Oh is it Grief or is it Gout | H |
What is this bellowing about | H |
That Pig replied with quivering snout | H |
Because I cannot jump | G |
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That Camel scanned him dreamy eyed | I |
Methinks you are too plump | G |
I never knew a Pig so wide | I |
That wobbled so from side to side | I |
Who could however much he tried | I |
Do such a thing as jump | G |
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Yet mark those trees two miles away | J |
All clustered in a clump | G |
If you could trot there twice a day | J |
Nor ever pause for rest or play | J |
In the far future Who can say | J |
You may be fit to jump | G |
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That Camel passed and left him there | K |
Beside the ruined Pump | G |
Oh horrid was that Pig's despair | K |
His shrieks of anguish filled the air | K |
He wrung his hoofs he rent his hair | K |
Because he could not jump | G |
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There was a Frog that wandered by | L |
A sleek and shining lump | G |
Inspected him with fishy eye | L |
And said O Pig what makes you cry | L |
And bitter was that Pig's reply | L |
Because I cannot jump | G |
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That Frog he grinned a grin of glee | E |
And hit his chest a thump | G |
O Pig he said be ruled by me | E |
And you shall see what you shall see | E |
This minute for a trifling fee | E |
I'll teach you how to jump | G |
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You may be faint from many a fall | E |
And bruised by many a bump | G |
But if you persevere through all | E |
And practice first on something small | E |
Concluding with a ten foot wall | E |
You'll find that you can jump | G |
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That Pig looked up with joyful start | M |
Oh Frog you are a trump | G |
Your words have healed my inward smart | M |
Come name your fee and do your part | M |
Bring comfort to a broken heart | M |
By teaching me to jump | G |
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My fee shall be a mutton chop | N |
My goal this wined Pump | G |
Observe with what an airy flop | N |
I plant myself upon the top | N |
Now bend your knees and take a hop | N |
For that's the way to jump | G |
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Uprose that Pig and rushed full whack | O |
Against the ruined Pump | G |
Rolled over like an empty sack | O |
And settled down upon his back | O |
While all his bones at once went Crack | O |
It was a fatal jump | G |
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Little Birds are writing | A |
Interesting books | C |
To be read by cooks | C |
Read I say not roasted | P |
Letterpress when toasted | Q |
Loses its good looks | C |
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Little Birds are playing | A |
Bagpipes on the shore | R |
Where the tourists snore | R |
Thanks they cry 'Tis thrilling | A |
Take oh take this shilling | A |
Let us have no more | R |
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Little Birds are bathing | A |
Crocodiles in cream | S |
Like a happy dream | S |
Like but not so lasting | A |
Crocodiles when fasting | A |
Are not all they seem | S |
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That Camel passed as Day grew dim | T |
Around the ruined Pump | G |
O broken heart O broken limb | T |
It needs that Camel said to him | T |
Something more fairy like and slim | T |
To execute a jump | G |
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That Pig lay still as any stone | F |
And could not stir a stump | G |
Nor ever if the truth were known | F |
Was he again observed to moan | F |
Nor ever wring his hoofs and groan | F |
Because he could not jump | G |
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That Frog made no remark for he | E |
Was dismal as a dump | G |
He knew the consequence must be | E |
That he would never get his fee | E |
And still he sits in miserie | R |
Upon that ruined Pump | G |
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Little Birds are choking | A |
Baronets with bun | U |
Taught to fire a gun | U |
Taught I say to splinter | R |
Salmon in the winter | R |
Merely for the fun | U |
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Little Birds are hiding | A |
Crimes in carpet bags | C |
Blessed by happy stags | C |
Blessed I say though beaten | U |
Since our friends are eaten | U |
When the memory flags | C |
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Little Birds are tasting | A |
Gratitude and gold | V |
Pale with sudden cold | V |
Pale I say and wrinkled | W |
When the bells have tinkled | W |
And the Tale is Told | V |
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