The Height Of The Ridiculous Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFCF GHIH JCKC LMNM OPQP RSTS FUVU| I WROTE some lines once on a time | A |
| In wondrous merry mood | B |
| And thought as usual men would say | C |
| They were exceeding good | D |
| - | |
| They were so queer so very queer | E |
| I laughed as I would die | F |
| Albeit in the general way | C |
| A sober man am I | F |
| - | |
| I called my servant and he came | G |
| How kind it was of him | H |
| To mind a slender man like me | I |
| He of the mighty limb | H |
| - | |
| These to the printer I exclaimed | J |
| And in my humorous way | C |
| I added as a trifling jest | K |
| There'll be the devil to pay | C |
| - | |
| He took the paper and I watched | L |
| And saw him peep within | M |
| At the first line he read his face | N |
| Was all upon the grin | M |
| - | |
| He read the next the grin grew broad | O |
| And shot from ear to ear | P |
| He read the third a chuckling noise | Q |
| I now began to hear | P |
| - | |
| The fourth he broke into a roar | R |
| The fifth his waistband split | S |
| The sixth he burst five buttons off | T |
| And tumbled in a fit | S |
| - | |
| Ten days and nights with sleepless eye | F |
| I watched that wretched man | U |
| And since I never dare to write | V |
| As funny as I can | U |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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