The Little Dog's Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGF HDID HJHJ KFLF MMFF| All in the town were still asleep | A |
| When the sun came up with a shout and a leap | A |
| In the lonely streets unseen by man | B |
| A little dog danced And the day began | B |
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| All his life he'd been good as far as he could | C |
| And the poor little beast had done all that he should | C |
| But this morning he swore by Odin and Thor | D |
| And the Canine Valhalla mdash he'd stand it no more | D |
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| So his prayer he got granted mdash to do just what he wanted | E |
| Prevented by none for the space of one day | F |
| Jam incipiebo sedere facebo | G |
| In dog Latin he quoth Euge sophos hurray | F |
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| He fought with the he dogs and winked at the she dogs | H |
| A thing that had never been heard of before | D |
| For the stigma of gluttony I care not a button he | I |
| Cried and ate all he could swallow mdash and more | D |
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| He took sinewy lumps from the shins of old frumps | H |
| And mangled the errand boys mdash when he could get 'em | J |
| He shammed furious rabies and bit all the babies | H |
| And followed the cats up the trees and then ate 'em | J |
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| They thought 'twas the devil was holding a revel | K |
| And sent for the parson to drive him away | F |
| For the town never knew such a hullabaloo | L |
| As that little dog raised mdash till the end of that day | F |
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| When the blood red sun had gone burning down | M |
| And the lights were lit in the little town | M |
| Outside in the gloom of the twilight grey | F |
| The little dog died when he'd had his day | F |
Rupert Brooke
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