A Cure At Porlock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFFE AGGA HIIH JKGL AFFA AMMA| For whatever did it the cider | A |
| at the Ship Inn where the crowd | B |
| from the bar that night had overflowed | C |
| singing into Southey s Corner or | D |
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| an early warning of appendicitis | E |
| the remedy the chemist in the High Street | F |
| purveyed was still a dose of kaopectate | F |
| in morphine the bane and the afflatus | E |
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| of S T C when Alph the sacred river | A |
| surfaced briefly in the unlikely | G |
| vicinity of Baker Farm and as quickly | G |
| sank again routed forever by the visitor | A |
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| whose business intent and disposition | H |
| whether ill or well is just as immaterial | I |
| long ago sunk Lethewards a particle | I |
| of the unbottled ultimate solution | H |
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| I drank my dose and after an afternoon | J |
| prostrate between heaves on the | K |
| coldly purgatorial tiles of the W C | G |
| found it elysium simply to recline | L |
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| sipping flat ginger beer as though it were | A |
| honeydew in that billowy bed | F |
| under pink chenille hearing you read | F |
| The Mystery of Edwin Drood For whether | A |
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| the opium was worth it for John Jasper | A |
| from finding being with you even sick | M |
| at Porlock a rosily addictive picnic | M |
| I left less likely ever to recover | A |
Amy Clampitt
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