Cacoethes Scribendi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF| If all the trees in all the woods were men | A |
| And each and every blade of grass a pen | A |
| If every leaf on every shrub and tree | B |
| Turned to a sheet of foolscap every sea | B |
| Were changed to ink and all earth's living tribes | C |
| Had nothing else to do but act as scribes | C |
| And for ten thousand ages day and night | D |
| The human race should write and write and write | D |
| Till all the pens and paper were used up | E |
| And the huge inkstand was an empty cup | E |
| Still would the scribblers clustered round its brink | F |
| Call for more pens more paper and more ink | F |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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