Soo-ti, A Pekinese Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ JJKKLLKKMMNNOOPPQQJJ RRJJJJSSCCFF JJJJ| Soo Ti I thank the careful fate | A |
| That made you wise and obstinate | B |
| Alert but with a proper pride | C |
| And gay but wondrous dignified | C |
| I praise your black and tilted nose | D |
| I praise your heart's deep love that shows | D |
| In songs made up of whimpering cries | E |
| And in the radiance of your eyes | E |
| And if they bulge forgive the allusion | F |
| Are eyes the worse for such protrusion | F |
| The smaller eyes are sure the blinder | G |
| And size makes every kind eye kinder | G |
| Next with affection's look I note | H |
| The glossy levels of your coat | H |
| Where a rich black doth most prevail | I |
| Shading to beaver in your tail | I |
| And lightly fading as it reaches | J |
| The tufted things you wear as breeches | J |
| - | |
| The dweller on the cushion purrs | J |
| No less when Soo Ti barks and stirs | J |
| She blinks and blinks and lets you share | K |
| Her bowl of milk her fav'rite chair | K |
| For you she hides her cruel claw | L |
| And taps you with a velvet paw | L |
| And mastered by your lordly air | K |
| For you is meek and debonair | K |
| Even should you growl her hair stays flat | M |
| Be sure she thinks you half a cat | M |
| But you're a Dog and know your job | N |
| Oft have I seen you hob a nob | N |
| And grandly gracious to unbend | O |
| With a Great Dane your humble friend | O |
| As on the lawn with him you roll | P |
| He makes your very being droll | P |
| Yet how you set to work to flout him | Q |
| To tease and gnaw and dance about him | Q |
| You risk the pressure of his paws | J |
| Plunge all you are within his jaws | J |
| And swelling to a final rage | R |
| With pin point teeth the fight engage | R |
| While he submits his silly size | J |
| To every insult you devise | J |
| At last withdrawing from the fuss | J |
| You come and tell your tale to us | J |
| Bearing aloft through every room | S |
| Your high tail's undefeated plume | S |
| Till fed with triumphs you subside | C |
| And sleep and doff your native pride | C |
| Composing in a wicker fane | F |
| Those limbs that terrify the Dane | F |
| - | |
| So Soo Ti I have tried to praise | J |
| Yourself and all your winning ways | J |
| Content if I may guard and please | J |
| My little dusky Pekinese | J |
R. C. Lehmann
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