Good Old Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFGHICEJDKL| When I was a boy I called the moon a | A |
| white plate of jade sometimes it looked | B |
| like a great mirror hanging in the sky | C |
| first came the two legs of the fairy | D |
| and the cassia tree but for whom the rabbit | E |
| kept on pounding medical herbs I | C |
| just could not guess Now the moon is being | F |
| swallowed by the toad and the light | G |
| flickers out leaving darkness all around | H |
| I hear that when nine of the burning suns out | I |
| of the ten were ordered to be shot down by | C |
| the Emperor Yao all has since been quiet | E |
| and peaceful both for heaven and man | J |
| but this eating up of the moon is for me | D |
| a truly ugly scene filling me with forebodings | K |
| wondering what will come out of it | L |
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