Snake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD BE FG HI J KE| BUT Snake you must not come where we abide | A |
| For you would tempt us we should hear you say | B |
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| 'Oh somewhere was a world was cold and spare | C |
| And voiceless somewhere was a Being was not | D |
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| Engrossed with substance with no fervencies | B |
| Of love and hatred and he made me Snake | E |
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| The wise Elohim they who made the rest | F |
| Of Creatures made them ail too manifold | G |
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| Mortised and rampired jointed vascular | H |
| And I was put an alien in their world | I |
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| All head all spine all limb all loin | J |
| Swift as a bird and single as a fish ' | - |
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| Above you fruits unglanced at bend and glow | K |
| And bare and voiceless you do tempt us Snake | E |
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