Enigma Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBDEFEGHIHIJKJKAA LMLMNONPKQKQRSRSAA| Come riddle me ree come riddle me ree | A |
| And tell me what my name may be | A |
| I am nearly one hundred and thirty years old | B |
| And therefore no chicken as you may suppose | C |
| Though a dwarf in my youth as my nurses have told | B |
| I have ev'ry year since been outgrowing my clothes | D |
| Till at last such a corpulent giant I stand | E |
| That if folks were to furnish me now with a suit | F |
| It would take ev'ry morsel of scrip in the land | E |
| But to measure my bulk from the head to the foot | G |
| Hence they who maintain me grown sick of my stature | H |
| To cover me nothing but rags will supply | I |
| And the doctors declare that in due course of nature | H |
| About the year in rags I shall die | I |
| Meanwhile I stalk hungry and bloated around | J |
| An object of int'rest most painful to all | K |
| In the warehouse the cottage the palace I'm found | J |
| Holding citizen peasant and king in my thrall | K |
| Then riddle me ree oh riddle me ree | A |
| Come tell me what my name may be | A |
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| When the lord of the counting house bends o'er his book | L |
| Bright pictures of profit delighting to draw | M |
| O'er his shoulders with large cipher eye balls I look | L |
| And down drops the pen from his paralyz'd paw | M |
| When the Premier lies dreaming of dear Waterloo | N |
| And expects through another to caper and prank it | O |
| You'd laugh did you see when I bellow out Boo | N |
| How he hides his brave Waterloo head in the blanket | P |
| When mighty Belshazzar brims high in the hall | K |
| His cup full of gout to Gaul's overthrow | Q |
| Lo Eight Hundred Millions I write on the wall | K |
| And the cup falls to earth and the gout to his toe | Q |
| But the joy of my heart is when largely I cram | R |
| My maw with the fruits of the Squirearchy's acres | S |
| And knowing who made me the thing that I am | R |
| Like the monster of Frankenstein worry my makers | S |
| Then riddle me ree come riddle me ree | A |
| And tell if thou knows't who I may be | A |
Thomas Moore
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