Ballade Of Railway Novels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDBE FBCBBDBE CBFBBDBE G BDBE| Let others praise analysis | A |
| And revel in a cultured style | B |
| And follow the subjective Miss | C |
| From Boston to the banks of Nile | B |
| Rejoice in anti British bile | B |
| And weep for fickle hero's woe | D |
| These twain have shortened many a mile | B |
| Miss Braddon and Gaboriau | E |
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| These damsels of Democracy's | F |
| How long they stop at every stile | B |
| They smile and we are told I wis | C |
| Ten subtle reasons WHY they smile | B |
| Give ME your villains deeply vile | B |
| Give me Lecoq Jottrat and Co | D |
| Great artists of the ruse and wile | B |
| Miss Braddon and Gaboriau | E |
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| Oh novel readers tell me this | C |
| Can prose that's polished by the file | B |
| Like great Boisgobey's mysteries | F |
| Wet days and weary ways beguile | B |
| And man to living reconcile | B |
| Like these whose every trick we know | D |
| The agony how high they pile | B |
| Miss Braddon and Gaboriau | E |
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| ENVOY | G |
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| Ah friend how many and many a while | B |
| They've made the slow time fleetly flow | D |
| And solaced pain and charmed exile | B |
| Miss Braddon and Gaboriau | E |
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