The Gryphon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHHII| It chanced that Allah looking round | A |
| When he had made his creatures found | A |
| Half of an Eagle and a pair | B |
| Of extra Lion legs to spare | B |
| So hating waste he took some glue | C |
| And made a Gryphon of the two | C |
| But when his handiwork he eyed | D |
| He frowned and it was petrified | D |
| Doomed for all time to represent | E |
| Impatience on a monument | F |
| Sometimes upon our path to day | G |
| Its living counterpart will stray | G |
| Columbia's Eagle strutting in | H |
| An awf'ly English Lion's skin | H |
| With glass in eye and swagg'ring gait | I |
| Behold the Gryphon up to date | I |
Oliver Herford
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