Piltdown Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHFI JKFFFL FMCNDOPQRSTFF UVHUCFWXYZ A2FFA2B2F DC2A2FNFD2A2FE2| Popping out of the dark | A |
| reddish Merry Christmas haze | B |
| twinking blinking land of Nod or | C |
| rather it's Ned the hefty trucker | D |
| eyes steel belted radials | E |
| in a rig big like Santa Claus | F |
| a Stegosaurus | G |
| swinging sabre toothed tail | H |
| flexing padded paws | F |
| to gobble night | I |
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| Loads so dreary weary their chrome plated | J |
| swamps are debris after a tank battle | K |
| for troglodyte trilobites | F |
| chocolate coloured ooze | F |
| belching brown down funnel flaps | F |
| to carve deep bellows inside earth | L |
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| Such energetic slaves | F |
| to cough sound their | M |
| wheezing sandy blasts make for | C |
| breaks in a clearing | N |
| for I see our trucker | D |
| eons from now | O |
| wedded to sentiment and rock | P |
| perfectly preserved to the dismay | Q |
| of future inhabitants a fossilized | R |
| remnant complete with | S |
| steering wheel embedded in his chest | T |
| forlorn and anatomically correct much as | F |
| dolls used in assault cases | F |
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| In a vision | U |
| envisage his life | V |
| replete to the last Raggetty Anne detail | H |
| straw coloured hair for one | U |
| looms like binder twine or | C |
| horse hair thread tugged from a dirty mattress | F |
| which props a toque or baseball cap | W |
| tobacco staining the resident | X |
| gum chewing Neanderthal | Y |
| with tartan lumberjack shirt | Z |
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| Contact with Piltdown Man | A2 |
| soggy Homo Erectus | F |
| given to gunning engines | F |
| churning rubber as cavemen | A2 |
| might in the | B2 |
| La Brera tarpits | F |
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| Consider a farmer | D |
| brief centuries ago | C2 |
| stumbling onto a similar scene | A2 |
| pocketing no cloverleafs | F |
| of his own pasture's making | N |
| but concrete expressways | F |
| looming thru the fog | D2 |
| damp then | A2 |
| coming to his senses | F |
| hard pressed as I | E2 |
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