In Quantity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B ACDEBB F B BGDBHBIJBKBFLHBM B BBNBFOHBHBNBHAGBACCP H| On Translations of Homer | A |
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| Hexameters acrd Pentameters | B |
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| These lame hexameters the strong wing'd music of Homer | A |
| No but a most burlesque barbarous experiment | C |
| When was a harsher sound ever heard ye Muses in England | D |
| When did a frog coarser croak upon our Helicon | E |
| Hexameters no worse than daring Germany gave us | B |
| Barbarous experiment barbarous hexameters | B |
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| Milton | F |
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| Alcaics | B |
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| O mighty mouth'd inventor of harmonies | B |
| O skill'd to sing of Time or Eternity | G |
| God gifted organ voice of England | D |
| Milton a name to resound for ages | B |
| Whose Titan angels Gabriel Abdiel | H |
| Starr'd from Jehovah's gorgeous armouries | B |
| Tower as the deep domed empyr an | I |
| Rings to the roar of an angel onset | J |
| Me rather all that bowery loneliness | B |
| The brooks of Eden mazily murmuring | K |
| And bloom profuse and cedar arches | B |
| Charm as a wanderer out in ocean | F |
| Where some refulgent sunset of India | L |
| Streams o'er a rich ambrosial ocean isle | H |
| And crimson hued the stately palmwoods | B |
| Whisper in odorous heights of even | M |
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| Hendecasyllabics | B |
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| O you chorus of indolent reviewers | B |
| Irresponsible indolent reviewers | B |
| Look I come to the test a tiny poem | N |
| All composed in a metre of Catullus | B |
| All in quantity careful of my motion | F |
| Like the skater on ice that hardly bears him | O |
| Lest I fall unawares before the people | H |
| Waking laughter in indolent reviewers | B |
| Should I flounder awhile without a tumble | H |
| Thro' this metrification of Catullus | B |
| They should speak to me not without a welcome | N |
| All that chorus of indolent reviewers | B |
| Hard hard hard is it only not to tumble | H |
| So fantastical is the dainty metre | A |
| Wherefore slight me not wholly nor believe me | G |
| Too presumptuous indolent reviewers | B |
| O blatant Magazines regard me rather | A |
| Since I blush to belaud myself a moment | C |
| As some rare little rose a piece of inmost | C |
| Horticultural art or half coquette like | P |
| Maiden not to be greeted unbenignly | H |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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