The Bat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE| By day the bat is cousin to the mouse | A |
| He likes the attic of an aging house | A |
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| His fingers make a hat about his head | B |
| His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead | B |
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| He loops in crazy figures half the night | C |
| Among the trees that face the corner light | C |
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| But when he brushes up against a screen | D |
| We are afraid of what our eyes have seen | D |
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| For something is amiss or out of place | E |
| When mice with wings can wear a human face | E |
Theodore Roethke
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