Departmental Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFFGGHHIIJ JKKIIIILLLLMNDDLLIII ILL| An ant on the tablecloth | A |
| Ran into a dormant moth | A |
| Of many times his size | B |
| He showed not the least surprise | B |
| His business wasn't with such | C |
| He gave it scarcely a touch | C |
| And was off on his duty run | D |
| Yet if he encountered one | D |
| Of the hive's enquiry squad | E |
| Whose work is to find out God | E |
| And the nature of time and space | F |
| He would put him onto the case | F |
| Ants are a curious race | F |
| One crossing with hurried tread | G |
| The body of one of their dead | G |
| Isn't given a moment's arrest | H |
| Seems not even impressed | H |
| But he no doubt reports to any | I |
| With whom he crosses antennae | I |
| And they no doubt report | J |
| To the higher up at court | J |
| Then word goes forth in Formic | K |
| 'Death's come to Jerry McCormic | K |
| Our selfless forager Jerry | I |
| Will the special Janizary | I |
| Whose office it is to bury | I |
| The dead of the commissary | I |
| Go bring him home to his people | L |
| Lay him in state on a sepal | L |
| Wrap him for shroud in a petal | L |
| Embalm him with ichor of nettle | L |
| This is the word of your Queen ' | M |
| And presently on the scene | N |
| Appears a solemn mortician | D |
| And taking formal position | D |
| With feelers calmly atwiddle | L |
| Seizes the dead by the middle | L |
| And heaving him high in air | I |
| Carries him out of there | I |
| No one stands round to stare | I |
| It is nobody else's affair | I |
| It couldn't be called ungentle | L |
| But how thoroughly departmental | L |
Robert Frost
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