Strange Jokes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBC DDEFEF FFGHGH IIJKJA I| Well Death is a huge omnivorous Toad | A |
| Grim squatting on a twilight road | A |
| He catcheth all that Circumstance | B |
| Hath tossed to him | C |
| He curseth all who upward glance | B |
| As lost to him | C |
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| Once in a whimsey mood he sat | D |
| And talked of life in proverbs pat | D |
| To Eve in Eden Death on Life | E |
| As if he knew | F |
| And so he toadied Adam's wife | E |
| There in the dew | F |
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| O dainty dew O morning dew | F |
| That gleamed in the world's first dawn did you | F |
| And the sweet grass and manful oaks | G |
| Give lair and rest | H |
| To him who toadwise sits and croaks | G |
| His death behest | H |
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| Who fears the hungry Toad Not I | I |
| He but unfetters me to fly | I |
| The German still when one is dead | J |
| Cries out Der Tod | K |
| But pilgrims Christ will walk ahead | J |
| And clear the road | A |
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| Macon Georgia July | I |
Sidney Lanier
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