Elegy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI| Here rests beneath this hospitable spot | A |
| A youth to flats and flatties not unknown | B |
| The Plymouth Brethren gave it to him hot | A |
| Trinity Cambridge claimed him for her own | B |
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| At chess a minor master Hoylake set | C |
| His handicap a Love drove him crazy | D |
| Thrre thousand women used to call him pet | C |
| In other gardens daffodil or daisy | D |
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| He climbed a lot of mountains in his time | E |
| He stalked the tiger bear and elephant | F |
| he wrote a stack of poems some sublime | E |
| Some not Plays essays pictures tales my aunt | G |
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| He had the gift of laughing at himself | H |
| Most affably he talked and walked with God | I |
| And now the silly bastard s on the shelf | H |
| We ve buried him beneath another sod | I |
Aleister Crowley
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