Peter, A Pekinese Puppy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDC EEFFGDDG BBHHIDDI JJKKLDDLL| Our Peter who's famed as an eater of things | A |
| Is a miniature dragon without any wings | A |
| He can gallop or trot he can amble or jog | B |
| But he flies like a flash when he's after his prog | B |
| And the slaves who adore him whatever his mood | C |
| Say that nothing is fleeter | D |
| Than Peter the eater | D |
| Than Peter pursuing his food | C |
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| He considers the garden his absolute own | E |
| It's the place where a digger can bury a bone | E |
| Then he tests his pin teeth on a pansy or rose | F |
| Spreading ruin and petals wherever he goes | F |
| And his mistress declares when he's nibbled for hours | G |
| That nothing is sweeter | D |
| Than Peter the eater | D |
| The resolute eater of flowers | G |
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| Having finished his dinner he wheedles the cook | B |
| Picks a coal from the scuttle or tackles a book | B |
| Or devotes all his strength to a slipper or mat | H |
| To the gnawing of this and the tearing of that | H |
| Faute de mieux takes a dress and his mistress asserts | I |
| That there's nothing to beat her | D |
| Like Peter the eater | D |
| Attached by his teeth to her skirts | I |
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| But at last he has supped and the moment is come | J |
| When his stretchable turn being tight as a drum | J |
| He is meek and submissive who once was so proud | K |
| And he creeps to his basket and slumbers aloud | K |
| And his mistress proclaims as she tucks up his shawl | L |
| That nothing is neater | D |
| Than Peter the eater | D |
| Than Peter curled up in a ball | L |
| Asleep and digesting it all | L |
R. C. Lehmann
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