Ornithology Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDEFGEHIJKLFMNLOGPQ RSTUVW| A | |
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| Walking toward the library I pass three children | B |
| staring down at a dead crow and daring each other | C |
| to poke it with a stick | D |
| I stop too because I know a little about crows | E |
| how for instance they are different from ravens | F |
| I could tell these well dressed children that | G |
| ravens are black a with purple tint while crows | E |
| are denied that royal hue A crow's tale is squared off | H |
| like the crew cut on the boy at Menchie's who hands | I |
| them the expensive frozen yogurt | J |
| while a raven's tale is triangular a shape discovered | K |
| by the Persians and beloved by the th century | L |
| mathematician Blaise Pascal Furthermore ravens | F |
| love solitude and prefer remote hills and woods | M |
| while a crow will perch on a stop sign and brag | N |
| about it endlessly | L |
| But that isn't what they are concerned about | O |
| They want to know about Death And for that | G |
| I would have to fetch the skull from my desktop | P |
| and ask the sun to hide its face behind a dark | Q |
| galleon shaped cloud and then | R |
| Oh wait They're offering me the stick All | S |
| they really want to know is will I poke the corpse | T |
| Of course And when I do and it moves they | U |
| run away shrieking and delighted More alive | V |
| if possible than before | W |
Ronald Koertge
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