Beetle And Moth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDCEEFGFGEEGGH I JKJKILILIEEMNMNOONN| There's a bug at night that goes | A |
| Drowsily down the garden ways | B |
| Lumberingly above the rose | A |
| And above the jasmine sprays | B |
| Bumping bungling buzzing by | C |
| Falling finally to crawl | D |
| Underneath the rose and lie | C |
| Near its fairest bud That's all | D |
| And I ask my father why | C |
| This old bug goes by that way | E |
| This is what he has to say | E |
| 'That's old Parson Beetle sonny | F |
| He's in love with some rich flower | G |
| After her and all her honey | F |
| And he'll have them in an hour | G |
| He is awkward but I say | E |
| With the flowers he has a way | E |
| And I tell you he's a power | G |
| Never fails to get his flower | G |
| He's a great old Beetle sonny ' | H |
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| II | I |
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| Then again when it is wet | J |
| And we sit around the lamp | K |
| On the screen near which it's set | J |
| Comes a fluttering dim and damp | K |
| Of white woolly wings and I | I |
| Go to see what's there and find | L |
| Something like a butterfly | I |
| Beating at the window blind | L |
| And I ask my father why | I |
| This strange creature does that way | E |
| This is what he has to say | E |
| 'Lady Moth that she's the fashion | M |
| Fall's in love with all bright things | N |
| She has a consuming passion | M |
| For this light will singe her wings | N |
| Once it was a star you know | O |
| That she loved I told you so | O |
| Take her up What lovely rings | N |
| On her scorched and dainty wings | N |
| It's a pity but the fashion ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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