The Town Of Dae Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDDEECC FFGHHGIJIIJ KKBBLLCLCLLLLCLC BBLLGGLLLFFB BLLLLCCC LL CMC FFLLNNCCOOLLC PPCC CCC FFFGQRGS CCCTC FFLLL LLCBULLVIILLSSCWW LLCXC IIVV YYLFFLIILLZZSLCLCWC| Swains and maidens young and old | A |
| You to me this tale have told | A |
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| Where the squalid town of Dae | B |
| Irks the comfortable sea | C |
| Spreading webs to gather fish | D |
| As for wealth we set a wish | D |
| Dwelt a king by right divine | E |
| Sprung from Adam's royal line | E |
| Town of Dae by the sea | C |
| Divers kinds of kings there be | C |
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| Name nor fame had Picklepip | F |
| Ne'er a soldier nor a ship | F |
| Bore his banners in the sun | G |
| Naught knew he of kingly sport | H |
| And he held his royal court | H |
| Under an inverted tun | G |
| Love and roses ages through | I |
| Bloom where cot and trellis stand | J |
| Never yet these blossoms grew | I |
| Never yet was room for two | I |
| In a cask upon the strand | J |
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| So it happened as it ought | K |
| That his simple schemes he wrought | K |
| Through the lagging summer's day | B |
| In a solitary way | B |
| So it happened as was best | L |
| That he took his nightly rest | L |
| With no dreadful incubus | C |
| This way eyed and that way tressed | L |
| Featured thus and thus and thus | C |
| Lying lead like on a breast | L |
| By cares of State enough oppressed | L |
| Yet in dreams his fancies rude | L |
| Claimed a lordly latitude | L |
| Town of Dae by the sea | C |
| Dreamers mate above their state | L |
| And waken back to their degree | C |
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| Once to cask himself away | B |
| He prepared at close of day | B |
| As he tugged with swelling throat | L |
| At a most unkingly coat | L |
| Not to get it off but on | G |
| For the serving sun was gone | G |
| Passed a silk appareled sprite | L |
| Toward her castle on the height | L |
| Seized and set the garment right | L |
| Turned the startled Picklepip | F |
| Splendid crimson cheek and lip | F |
| Turned again to sneak away | B |
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| But she bade the villain stay | B |
| Bade him thank her which he did | L |
| With a speech that slipped and slid | L |
| Sprawled and stumbled in its gait | L |
| As a dancer tries to skate | L |
| Town of Dae by the sea | C |
| In the face of silk and lace | C |
| Rags too bold should never be | C |
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| Lady Minnow cocked her head | L |
| 'Mister Picklepip ' she said | L |
| 'Do you ever think to wed ' | - |
| Town of Dae by the sea | C |
| No fair lady ever made a | M |
| Wicked speech like that to me | C |
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| Wretched little Picklepip | F |
| Said he hadn't any ship | F |
| Any flocks at his command | L |
| Nor to feed them any land | L |
| Said he never in his life | N |
| Owned a mine to keep a wife | N |
| But the guilty stammer so | C |
| That his meaning wouldn't flow | C |
| So he thought his aim to reach | O |
| By some figurative speech | O |
| Said his Fate had been unkind | L |
| Had pursued him from behind | L |
| How the mischief could it else | C |
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| Came upon him unaware | P |
| Caught him by the collar there | P |
| Gushed the little lady's glee | C |
| Like a gush of golden bells | C |
| 'Picklepip why that is me ' | - |
| Town of Dae by the sea | C |
| Grammar's for great scholars she | C |
| Loved the summer and the lea | C |
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| Stupid little Picklepip | F |
| Allowed the subtle hint to slip | F |
| Maundered on about the ship | F |
| That he did not chance to own | G |
| Told this grievance o'er and o'er | Q |
| Knowing that she knew before | R |
| Told her how he dwelt alone | G |
| Lady Minnow for reply | S |
| Cut him off with 'So do I ' | - |
| But she reddened at the fib | C |
| Servitors had she ad lib | C |
| Town of Dae by the sea | C |
| In her youth who speaks no truth | T |
| Ne'er shall young and honest be | C |
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| Witless little Picklepip | F |
| Manned again his mental ship | F |
| And veered her with a sudden shift | L |
| Painted to the lady's thought | L |
| How he wrestled and he wrought | L |
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| Stoutly with the swimming drift | L |
| By the kindly river brought | L |
| From the mountain to the sea | C |
| Fuel for the town of Dae | B |
| Tedious tale for lady's ear | U |
| From her castle on the height | L |
| She had watched her water knight | L |
| Through the seasons of a year | V |
| Challenge more than met his view | I |
| And conquer better than he knew | I |
| Now she shook her pretty pate | L |
| And stamped her foot 't was growing late | L |
| 'Mister Picklepip when I | S |
| Drifting seaward pass you by | S |
| When the waves my forehead kiss | C |
| And my tresses float above | W |
| Dead and drowned for lack of love | W |
| You'll be sorry sir for this ' | - |
| And the silly creature cried | L |
| Feared perchance the rising tide | L |
| Town of Dae by the sea | C |
| Madam Adam when she had 'em | X |
| May have been as bad as she | C |
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| Fiat lux Love's lumination | I |
| Fell in floods of revelation | I |
| Blinded brain by world aglare | V |
| Sense of pulses in the air | V |
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| Sense of swooning and the beating | Y |
| Of a voice somewhere repeating | Y |
| Something indistinctly heard | L |
| And the soul of Picklepip | F |
| Sprang upon his trembling lip | F |
| But he spake no further word | L |
| Of the wealth he did not own | I |
| In that moment had outgrown | I |
| Ship and mine and flock and land | L |
| Even his cask upon the strand | L |
| Dropped a stricken star to earth | Z |
| Type of wealth and worldly worth | Z |
| Clomb the moon into the sky | S |
| Type of love's immensity | L |
| Shaking silver seemed the sea | C |
| Throne of God the town of Dae | L |
| Town of Dae by the sea | C |
| From above there cometh love | W |
| Blessing all good souls that be | C |
Ambrose Bierce
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