The Cobra
Rayner Mendes
Cobra! Cobra! Slither slow
Through thy jungle the wind blow
What creature by and by
Could see through thy patient eyes?
Look further than what you see
Is this all you can be?
With which hands dare he climb higher?
To reach thy divine fire?
What the grass? What the snow?
In what valley did wind blow?
What the fire? Dare to pass
Through our eternal grasp
Cobra! Cobra! Slither slow
Through the jungle the wind blow
What creature by and by
Could see through thy patient eyes?
This poem is written in trochaic tetrameter
The rhyme scheme is AABB
