What The Hyena Said Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DDED FFFFF FFDD| The moon is but a golden skull | A |
| She mounts the heavens now | B |
| And Moon Worms mighty Moon Worms | C |
| Are wreathed around her brow | B |
| - | |
| The Moon Worms are a doughty race | D |
| They eat her gray and golden face | D |
| Her eye sockets dead and molding head | E |
| These caverns are their dwelling place | D |
| - | |
| The Moon Worms serpents of the skies | F |
| From the great hollows of her eyes | F |
| Behold all souls and they are wise | F |
| With tiny keen and icy eyes | F |
| Behold how each man sins and dies | F |
| - | |
| When Earth in gold corruption lies | F |
| Long dead the moon worm butterflies | F |
| On cyclone wings will reach this place | D |
| Yea rear their brood on earth's dead face | D |
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