Here's To The Mice! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDECFE GHHHHIJI| Written with the hope that the socialists might yet dethrone Kaiser and Czar | A |
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| Here's to the mice that scare the lions | B |
| Creeping into their cages | C |
| Here's to the fairy mice that bite | D |
| The elephants fat and wise | E |
| Hidden in the hay pile while the elephant thunder rages | C |
| Here's to the scurrying timid mice | F |
| Through whom the proud cause dies | E |
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| Here's to the seeming accident | G |
| When all is planned and working | H |
| All the flywheels turning | H |
| Not a vassal shirking | H |
| Here's to the hidden tunneling thing | H |
| That brings the mountain's groans | I |
| Here's to the midnight scamps that gnaw | J |
| Gnawing away the thrones | I |
Vachel Lindsay
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