The Ape And I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHIHI AJAJKDKD LMLM| Said a monkey unto me | A |
| How I'm glad I am not you | B |
| See I swing from tree to tree | A |
| Something that you cannot do | B |
| In gay greenery I drown | C |
| Swift to skyey hights I scale | D |
| As you watch me hang head down | C |
| Don't you wish you had a tail | D |
| - | |
| Don't you wish that you could wear | E |
| In the place of stuffy clothes | F |
| Just a silky coat of hair | E |
| Never shoes to cramp your toes | G |
| Never need to toil for bread | H |
| Round you nuts and fruit and spice | I |
| And with palm tuft for a bed | H |
| Happily to crack your lice | I |
| - | |
| Said I You are right maybe | A |
| Witting naught of wordly woe | J |
| Gloriously you are free | A |
| And of death you nothing know | J |
| Envying your monkey mind | K |
| Innocent of blight and bale | D |
| As I touch my bald behind | K |
| How I wish I had a tail | D |
| - | |
| So in toils of trouble caught | L |
| Oft I wonder with a sigh | M |
| If that blue bummed ape is not | L |
| Happier than I | M |
Robert William Service
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