Jonah Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEEFFE GGHIIH EEJAAK EEEEEE LLAA| A purple whale | A |
| Proudly sweeps his tail | A |
| Towards Nineveh | B |
| Glassy green | C |
| Surges between | C |
| A mile of roaring sea | D |
| - | |
| O town of gold | E |
| Of splendour multifold | E |
| Lucre and lust | E |
| Leviathan's eye | F |
| Can surely spy | F |
| Thy doom of death and dust | E |
| - | |
| On curving sands | G |
| Vengeful Jonah stands | G |
| Yet forty days | H |
| Then down down | I |
| Tumbles the town | I |
| In flaming ruin ablaze | H |
| - | |
| With swift lament | E |
| Those Ninevites repent | E |
| They cry in tears | J |
| Our hearts fail | A |
| The whale the whale | A |
| Our sins prick us like spears | K |
| - | |
| Jonah is vexed | E |
| He cries What next what next | E |
| And shakes his fist | E |
| Stupid city | E |
| The shame the pity | E |
| The glorious crash I've missed | E |
| - | |
| Away goes Jonah grumbling | L |
| Murmuring and mumbling | L |
| Off ploughs the purple whale | A |
| With disappointed tail | A |
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