Quandary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFEEEEEEGG HHIIEE| Never have I been glad or sad | A |
| That there was such a thing as bad | A |
| There had to be I understood | B |
| For there to have been any good | B |
| It was by having been contrasted | C |
| That good and bad so long had lasted | C |
| That's why discrimination reigns | D |
| That's why we need a lot of brains | D |
| If only to discriminate | E |
| 'Twixt what to love and what to hate | E |
| To quote the oracle at Delphi | F |
| Love thy neighbor as thyself aye | F |
| And hate him as thyself thou hatest | E |
| There quandary is at its greatest | E |
| We learned from the forbidden fruit | E |
| For brains there is no substitute | E |
| 'Unless it's sweetbreads ' you suggest | E |
| With innuendo I detest | E |
| You drive me to confess in ink | G |
| Once I was fool enough to think | G |
| That brains and sweetbreads were the same | H |
| Till I was caught and put to shame | H |
| First by a butcher then a cook | I |
| Then by a scientific book | I |
| But ' twas by making sweetbreads do | E |
| I passed with such a high I Q | E |
Robert Frost
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