Art's Martyr Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGFCGG CECCEE HIHIII CCCCCC CICIII CJCJJJ HIHIII| Telleth of a young man that fain would be fairly tattooed on his | A |
| flesh after the heathen manner in devices of blue and that | B |
| falling among the Dyacks a folk of Borneo was by them tattooed | C |
| in modern fashion and device and of his misery that fell upon | D |
| him and his outlawry | E |
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| He said The China on the shelf | F |
| Is very fair to view | G |
| And wherefore should mine outer self | F |
| Not correspond thereto | C |
| In blue | G |
| My frame I must tattoo | G |
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| Where may tattooing men abound | C |
| And ah where might they be | E |
| Nay well I wot they are not found | C |
| In lands of Christentie | C |
| Quoth he | E |
| But I must cross the sea | E |
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| So forth he sailed to Borneo | H |
| A land that culture lacks | I |
| And there his money did bestow | H |
| To purchase pricks and hacks | I |
| Dyacks | I |
| Are famed tattooing blacks | I |
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| But European commerce had | C |
| Debased the savage kind | C |
| And they this most unhappy lad | C |
| Before and eke behind | C |
| Designed | C |
| In colours to their mind | C |
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| Such awful colours as are blent | C |
| On terrible placards | I |
| Where flames the fierce advertisement | C |
| Yea or on Christmas cards | I |
| Not Ward's | I |
| But common Christmas cards | I |
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| Thus never more to Chelsea might | C |
| The luckless boy return | J |
| He knew himself too dreadful quite | C |
| A thing his friends would spurn | J |
| And turn | J |
| To praise some Grecian urn | J |
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| But still he dwells in Borneo | H |
| A land that culture lacks | I |
| And there they all admire him so | H |
| They bring him heads in sacks | I |
| Dyacks | I |
| Are NOT aesthetic blacks | I |
Andrew Lang
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