Fashions Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DEFE AGHGC IJIJ KLKLC LMNM GOPOC FQFQ GRGRC GCGC| Fashion on fashion on fashion | A |
| With only the truth growing old | B |
| And here's the new purple of passion | A |
| And love waiting out in the cold | B |
| Who'll buy | C |
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| They are crying new lamps for Aladdin | D |
| New worlds for the old and the true | E |
| And no one remembers the story | F |
| The magic was not in the new | E |
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| They are crying a new rose for Eden | A |
| A rose of green glass I suppose | G |
| The only thing wrong with their rose is | H |
| The fact that it isn't a rose | G |
| Who'll buy | C |
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| And here is a song without metre | I |
| And here again nothing is wrong | J |
| For nothing on earth could be neater | I |
| Except that it isn't a song | J |
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| Well Walk on your hands It's the latest | K |
| And feet are Victorian now | L |
| And even our best and our greatest | K |
| Before that dread epithet bow | L |
| Who'll buy | C |
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| The furniture goes for a song now | L |
| The sixties had horrible taste | M |
| But the trouble is this they've included | N |
| Some better things too in their haste | M |
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| Were they wrapped in the antimacassars | G |
| Or sunk in a sofa of plush | O |
| Did an Angelican bishop forget them | P |
| And leave them behind in the crush | O |
| Who'll buy | C |
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| Here's a turnex It's going quite cheaply | F |
| It lived with stuffed birds in the hall | Q |
| And of course to a mind that thinks deeply | F |
| That settles it once and for all | Q |
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| Here's item a ring very plain sirs | G |
| And item a God but He's dead | R |
| They say we shall need Him again sirs | G |
| So item a cross for His head | R |
| Who'll buy | C |
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| Yes you'll need it again though He's dead sirs | G |
| It is only the fashions that fly | C |
| So here are the thorns for His head sirs | G |
| They'll keep till you need 'em Who'll buy | C |
Alfred Noyes
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