A 'scion Of Nobility' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGH IBIB JKLK MNMN HOHO| Come sisters weep our Baron dear | A |
| Alas has run away | B |
| If always we had kept him here | C |
| He had not gone astray | B |
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| Painter and grainer it were vain | D |
| To say he was before | E |
| And if he were yet ne'er again | F |
| He'll darken here a door | E |
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| We mourn each matrimonial plan | G |
| Even tradesmen join the cry | H |
| He was so promising a man | G |
| Whenever he did buy | H |
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| He was a fascinating lad | I |
| Deny it all who may | B |
| Even moneyed men confess he had | I |
| A very taking way | B |
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| So from our tables he is gone | J |
| Our tears descend in showers | K |
| We loved the very fat upon | L |
| His kidneys for 'twas ours | K |
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| To women he was all respect | M |
| To duns as cold as ice | N |
| No lady could his suit reject | M |
| No tailor get its price | N |
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| He raised our hope above the sky | H |
| Alas alack and O | O |
| That one who worked it up so high | H |
| Should play it down so low | O |
Ambrose Bierce
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