Monkeys Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDEFGHICJCCCCCCC CEKELDMEDJNOBCCJ| Two little creatures | A |
| with faces the size of | B |
| a pair of pennies | C |
| are clasping each other | D |
| Ah do not leave me | E |
| One says to the other | D |
| in the high monkey | E |
| cage in the beast shop | F |
| there are no people | G |
| to gape at them now | H |
| for people are loth | I |
| peer in the dimness | C |
| have they not builded | J |
| streets and playhouses | C |
| sky sign and bars | C |
| to lose the lonlieness | C |
| shaking the hearts | C |
| of the two little monkeys | C |
| Yes but who watches | C |
| the penny small faces | C |
| can hear the voices | C |
| Ah do not leave me | E |
| suck i wil give you | K |
| warmth and clasping | E |
| and if you slip from | L |
| this beam can never | D |
| find you again | M |
| Dim is the evening | E |
| and chill is the weather | D |
| there drawn from their coloured | J |
| hemisphere | N |
| the apes lilliputian | O |
| with faces the size of | B |
| a pair of pennies | C |
| and voices as low as | C |
| the flow of my blood | J |
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