To An Insect Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBACDC BEAEFGAG HFIFJKLK BMNMOFBF PEAEBQBQ AKAKABAB| I Love to hear thine earnest voice | A |
| Wherever thou art hid | B |
| Thou testy little dogmatist | B |
| Thou pretty Katydid | B |
| Thou mindest me of gentlefolks | A |
| Old gentlefolks are they | C |
| Thou say'st an undisputed thing | D |
| In such a solemn way | C |
| - | |
| Thou art a female Katydid | B |
| I know it by the trill | E |
| That quivers through thy piercing notes | A |
| So petulant and shrill | E |
| I think there is a knot of you | F |
| Beneath the hollow tree | G |
| A knot of spinster Katydids | A |
| Do Katydids drink tea | G |
| - | |
| Oh tell me where did Katy live | H |
| And what did Katy do | F |
| And was she very fair and young | I |
| And yet so wicked too | F |
| Did Katy love a naughty man | J |
| Or kiss more cheeks than one | K |
| I warrant Katy did no more | L |
| Than many a Kate has done | K |
| - | |
| Dear me I'll tell you all about | B |
| My fuss with little Jane | M |
| And Ann with whom I used to walk | N |
| So often down the lane | M |
| And all that tore their locks of black | O |
| Or wet their eyes of blue | F |
| Pray tell me sweetest Katydid | B |
| What did poor Katy do | F |
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| Ah no the living oak shall crash | P |
| That stood for ages still | E |
| The rock shall rend its mossy base | A |
| And thunder down the hill | E |
| Before the little Katydid | B |
| Shall add one word to tell | Q |
| The mystic story of the maid | B |
| Whose name she knows so well | Q |
| - | |
| Peace to the ever murmuring race | A |
| And when the latest one | K |
| Shall fold in death her feeble wings | A |
| Beneath the autumn sun | K |
| Then shall she raise her fainting voice | A |
| And lift her drooping lid | B |
| And then the child of future years | A |
| Shall hear what Katy did | B |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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