Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC ADC EFG CCC HCC| It is true that the rivers went nosing like swine | A |
| Tugging at banks until they seemed | B |
| Bland belly sounds in somnolent troughs | C |
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| That the air was heavy with the breath of these swine | A |
| The breath of turgid summer and | D |
| Heavy with thunder's rattapallax | C |
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| That the man who erected this cabin planted | E |
| This field and tended it awhile | F |
| Knew not the quirks of imagery | G |
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| That the hours of his indolent arid days | C |
| Grotesque with this nosing in banks | C |
| This somnolence and rattapallax | C |
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| Seemed to suckle themselves on his arid being | H |
| As the swine like rivers suckled themselves | C |
| While they went seaward to the sea mouths | C |
Wallace Stevens
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