The Cockatrice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCAADE| If you will listen to advice | A |
| You will avoid the Cockatrice | A |
| A caution I need hardly say | A |
| Wholly superfluous to day | A |
| Yet had you lived when they were rife | B |
| Such warning might have saved your life | B |
| To meet the Cockatrice's eye | C |
| Means certain death and that is why | C |
| When I its features here portray | A |
| I make it look the other way | A |
| O Cockatrice were you so mean | D |
| What must the Henatrice have been | E |
Oliver Herford
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