Poet R. C. Lehmann

R. C. Lehmann

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Soo-ti, A Pekinese Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ JJKKLLKKMMNNOOPPQQJJ RRJJJJSSCCFF JJJJ

Soo Ti I thank the careful fateA
That made you wise and obstinateB
Alert but with a proper prideC
And gay but wondrous dignifiedC
I praise your black and tilted noseD
I praise your heart's deep love that showsD
In songs made up of whimpering criesE
And in the radiance of your eyesE
And if they bulge forgive the allusionF
Are eyes the worse for such protrusionF
The smaller eyes are sure the blinderG
And size makes every kind eye kinderG
Next with affection's look I noteH
The glossy levels of your coatH
Where a rich black doth most prevailI
Shading to beaver in your tailI
And lightly fading as it reachesJ
The tufted things you wear as breechesJ
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The dweller on the cushion purrsJ
No less when Soo Ti barks and stirsJ
She blinks and blinks and lets you shareK
Her bowl of milk her fav'rite chairK
For you she hides her cruel clawL
And taps you with a velvet pawL
And mastered by your lordly airK
For you is meek and debonairK
Even should you growl her hair stays flatM
Be sure she thinks you half a catM
But you're a Dog and know your jobN
Oft have I seen you hob a nobN
And grandly gracious to unbendO
With a Great Dane your humble friendO
As on the lawn with him you rollP
He makes your very being drollP
Yet how you set to work to flout himQ
To tease and gnaw and dance about himQ
You risk the pressure of his pawsJ
Plunge all you are within his jawsJ
And swelling to a final rageR
With pin point teeth the fight engageR
While he submits his silly sizeJ
To every insult you deviseJ
At last withdrawing from the fussJ
You come and tell your tale to usJ
Bearing aloft through every roomS
Your high tail's undefeated plumeS
Till fed with triumphs you subsideC
And sleep and doff your native prideC
Composing in a wicker faneF
Those limbs that terrify the DaneF
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So Soo Ti I have tried to praiseJ
Yourself and all your winning waysJ
Content if I may guard and pleaseJ
My little dusky PekineseJ

R. C. Lehmann



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