Bat, Bat, Come Under My Hat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFFFGHIHJKJHLML EHHHHH| A Modernity | A |
| Twelve good friends | B |
| Passed under her hat | C |
| And devil a one of them | D |
| Knew where he was at | C |
| Had they but known | E |
| Then had they known all things | F |
| The littleness of great things | F |
| The unmeasured immensity of small things | F |
| They had known the Where and the Why | G |
| The When and the Wherefore | H |
| And how the Eternal | I |
| Conceived the Eternal and therefore | H |
| Beginning began the Beginning | J |
| They had apprehended | K |
| The ultimate virtue of sinning | J |
| They had caught the whisper | H |
| That Vega vibrates to Arcturus | L |
| Piercing the walls | M |
| Of heavy flesh that immure us | L |
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| But if they had known | E |
| Then had there been no mystery | H |
| And Life had been poorer | H |
| And laughter unsurer | H |
| And the shadow of death securer | H |
| By lack of this brief history | H |
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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