The Meadow Mouse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFBGHIJK LMNOPQ PRS KPTBKU PJBV| A | |
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| In a shoe box stuffed in an old nylon stocking | B |
| Sleeps the baby mouse I found in the meadow | C |
| Where he trembled and shook beneath a stick | D |
| Till I caught him up by the tail and brought him in | E |
| Cradled in my hand | F |
| A little quaker the whole body of him trembling | B |
| His absurd whiskers sticking out like a cartoon mouse | G |
| His feet like small leaves | H |
| Little lizard feet | I |
| Whitish and spread wide when he tried to struggle away | J |
| Wriggling like a minuscule puppy | K |
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| Now he's eaten his three kinds of cheese and drunk from his | L |
| bottle cap watering trough | M |
| So much he just lies in one corner | N |
| His tail curled under him his belly big | O |
| As his head his bat like ears | P |
| Twitching tilting toward the least sound | Q |
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| Do I imagine he no longer trembles | P |
| When I come close to him | R |
| He seems no longer to tremble | S |
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| But this morning the shoe box house on the back porch is empty | K |
| Where has he gone my meadow mouse | P |
| My thumb of a child that nuzzled in my palm | T |
| To run under the hawk's wing | B |
| Under the eye of the great owl watching from the elm tree | K |
| To live by courtesy of the shrike the snake the tom cat | U |
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| I think of the nestling fallen into the deep grass | P |
| The turtle gasping in the dusty rubble of the highway | J |
| The paralytic stunned in the tub and the water rising | B |
| All things innocent hapless forsaken | V |
Theodore Roethke
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