A Snake Yarn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCD EFEEFDD GFGGFCD FBHHCD| You talk of snakes said Jack the Rat | A |
| But blow me one hot summer | B |
| I seen a thing that knocked me flat | A |
| Fourteen foot long or more than that | A |
| It was a reg'lar hummer | B |
| Lay right along a sort of bog | C |
| Just like a log | D |
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| The ugly thing was lyin' there | E |
| And not a sign o' movin' | F |
| Give any man a nasty scare | E |
| Seen nothin' like it anywhere | E |
| Since I first started drovin' | F |
| And yet it didn't scare my dog | D |
| Looked like a log | D |
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| I had to cross that bog yer see | G |
| And bluey I was humpin' | F |
| But wonderin' what that thing could be | G |
| A lyin' there in front o' me | G |
| I didn't feel like jumpin' | F |
| Yet though I shivered like a frog | C |
| It seemed a log | D |
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| I takes a leap and lands right on | F |
| The back of that there whopper | B |
| He stopped We waited Then Big Mac | H |
| Remarked Well then what happened Jack | H |
| Not much said Jack and drained his grog | C |
| It was a log | D |
William Thomas Goodge
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