The Lubber Fiend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDEE BBFGFGHH IJKLKLFF MMFNFNOO PPQAR FF RRSTSTAA UUVWVW XXYZYZOO A2A2B2 B2 C2C2 UUD2 D2 N NE2E2F2YF2YG2C2 H2H2RI2RI2U NNJ2DJ2D| In the woods not long ago | A |
| Met with Robin Goodfell w | B |
| First we heard his horse like laugh | C |
| In an ivy bush near by | D |
| Then we saw him like a calf | C |
| Or a frisky colt just fly | D |
| Kicking high his frantic heels | E |
| Squealing as a scared pig squeals | E |
| - | |
| Snorting baaing neighing too | B |
| Through the woods he fairly flew | B |
| Father followed him but he | F |
| Could n't catch him long of limb | G |
| As a grasshopper you see | F |
| There's no man could capture him | G |
| Then besides his color's green | H |
| So he's rarely ever seen | H |
| - | |
| Often when you're in the woods | I |
| Just a walking with your moods | J |
| And not thinking listening how | K |
| Still it is right near your head | L |
| Breaks the bellow of a cow | K |
| And you dropp scared nearly dead | L |
| That's old Robin you can't see | F |
| 'Cause he's colored like a tree | F |
| - | |
| And I've heard he calls and calls | M |
| In the woods for help or falls | M |
| Like an urchin from a tree | F |
| You jump up and shout and run | N |
| But there's nothing there to see | F |
| Just a snickering as of fun | N |
| in the thicket or somewhere | O |
| And you're madder than a hare | O |
| - | |
| Sometimes in dark woods a light | P |
| Flashes in your eyes as bright | P |
| As a firefly after rain | Q |
| And your eyes are dazzled so | A |
| That you shut them look again | R |
| Nothing's there That's Goodfell w | - |
| With his jack o' lantern see | F |
| Hiding in some hollow tree | F |
| - | |
| These are pranks he plays on men | R |
| When he feels all right but when | R |
| He is out of humor well | S |
| Better keep away he'll harm | T |
| Leads you with a heifer's bell | S |
| Or horn lantern to some farm | T |
| You suppose but 't is n't no | A |
| Some old bog in which you go | A |
| - | |
| Sometimes he's called Puck they say | U |
| And it was the other day | U |
| Father read me from a book | V |
| That some people call him Lob | W |
| One who haunts the ingle nook | V |
| Or sits humped upon the hob | W |
| Whistling up the chimney flue | - |
| Till the kettle whistles too | - |
| - | |
| He's the Lubber Fiend that sweeps | X |
| Ashes in your face and creeps | X |
| Under cracks when north winds howl | Y |
| Hides behind the closet door | Z |
| And peeps at you like an owl | Y |
| Bumps you shrieking on the floor | Z |
| And at night he rides a mare | O |
| Round your bed and everywhere | O |
| - | |
| And he teases dogs that doze | A2 |
| By the fire and I suppose | A2 |
| They must seehim in their dreams | B2 |
| When they snarl and glare o'erhead | - |
| And it's he or so it seems | B2 |
| Tumbles children out of bed | - |
| Wakes the house and makes a fuss | C2 |
| For he's awful mischievous | C2 |
| - | |
| That's what I heard father say | U |
| And I know it's true Some day | U |
| I'm a going to be a boy | D2 |
| Just like Robin romp and shout | - |
| And kick up my heels for joy | D2 |
| And scare people round about | - |
| Just play tricks on every one | N |
| - | |
| Don't you think it would be fun | N |
| Take an old cow horn that's harsh | E2 |
| As a frog that haunts the marsh | E2 |
| And when folks are in their beds | F2 |
| Blow it at the windowsill | Y |
| Till they cover up their heads | F2 |
| And when all again is still | Y |
| Hear them wonder what it was | G2 |
| That was making all that fuss | C2 |
| - | |
| Or I'll make a pumpkin face | H2 |
| Light and hide it in some place | H2 |
| Where are bushes and when men | R |
| Come along I'll grunt and groan | I2 |
| Like an old pig in its pen | R |
| When they run I'll throw a stone | I2 |
| Or just vanish and they'll say | U |
| ' What was that I wonder eh ' | - |
| - | |
| It would be a lot of fun | N |
| Would n't it to make folks run | N |
| Jumping at them from the dark | J2 |
| Like a big black dog oh my | D |
| It would be the greatest lark | J2 |
| Wonder why it is that I | D |
| Can't grow up at once like you | - |
| And do things I'd like to do | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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