The Poet In The Nursery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB AAAAAA CDCDCD EFGFHF IJKJKJ| The youngest poet down the shelves was fumbling | A |
| In a dim library just behind the chair | B |
| From which the ancient poet was mum mumbling | A |
| A song about some Lovers at a Fair | B |
| Pulling his long white beard and gently grumbling | A |
| That rhymes were beastly things and never there | B |
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| And as I groped the whole time I was thinking | A |
| About the tragic poem I'd been writing | A |
| An old man's life of beer and whisky drinking | A |
| His years of kidnapping and wicked fighting | A |
| And how at last into a fever sinking | A |
| Remorsefully he died his bedclothes biting | A |
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| But suddenly I saw the bright green cover | C |
| Of a thin pretty book right down below | D |
| I snatched it up and turned the pages over | C |
| To find it full of poetry and so | D |
| Put it down my neck with quick hands like a lover | C |
| And turned to watch if the old man saw it go | D |
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| The book was full of funny muddling mazes | E |
| Each rounded off into a lovely song | F |
| And most extraordinary and monstrous phrases | G |
| Knotted with rhymes like a slave driver's thong | F |
| And metre twisting like a chain of daisies | H |
| With great big splendid words a sentence long | F |
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| I took the book to bed with me and gloated | I |
| Learning the lines that seemed to sound most grand | J |
| So soon the pretty emerald green was coated | K |
| With jam and greasy marks from my hot hand | J |
| While round the nursery for long months there floated | K |
| Wonderful words no one could understand | J |
Robert Graves
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