Old Snake-doctor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCC D EBBEFFF D GEEGHHH I BBBBJJJ I KIILMMM I BIIBBBB I NIINOO| Once I found an ant lion's hole | A |
| And an ant lion in it nippers | B |
| Like a pair of rusty clippers | B |
| And I saw a red ant roll | A |
| In its pit and quick as Ned | C |
| This old ant lion fanged its head | C |
| Held it till the ant was dead | C |
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| II | D |
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| And I told my father he | E |
| Smiled and said 'He beats the dickens | B |
| With his pinchers even chickens | B |
| Have n't his voracity | E |
| Think now what he would have done | F |
| Had you been an ant my son | F |
| Fallen in that pit like one | F |
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| III | D |
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| 'Daniel in the lion's den | G |
| Guess you'd come home good and gory | E |
| But now here's another story | E |
| You should see these ant lions when | G |
| They have wings and blue and green | H |
| Ponds and pools they fly between | H |
| Prettiest things I've ever seen | H |
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| IV | I |
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| 'Look just like the dragonflies | B |
| And perhaps they are snake feeders | B |
| Name you'll never find in Readers | B |
| Read at school but I surmise | B |
| Dragonflies are not the same | J |
| As these old snake doctors name | J |
| For which I am not to blame | J |
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| V | I |
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| 'Who's to blame then If it's not | K |
| I or say the dictionary | I |
| Since we two seem so contr ry | I |
| Must be that old ant lion what | L |
| Can't content itself that's plain | M |
| With its bug estate remain | M |
| Just a bug in sun and rain | M |
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| VI | I |
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| 'Has to get himself new clothes | B |
| Gauzy wings that shine and glitter | I |
| Something that he thinks is fitter | I |
| His profession I suppose | B |
| Doctoring things like water snakes | B |
| Finery that often takes | B |
| Eyes of hungry ducks and drakes | B |
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| VII | I |
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| 'And of fishes too the fool | N |
| Who his coat so bright and brassy | I |
| Mirrored in the waters glassy | I |
| Leap for drag into the pool | N |
| Old snake doctor flaunt your fill | O |
| Feed the snakes or cure or kill | O |
| In the end you pay the bill ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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