For Mark Twain's Jubilee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDB EFGHHG GGIJJI GGBKGB| To brave Mark Twain across the sea | A |
| The years have brought his jubilee | A |
| One hears it half with pain | B |
| That fifty years have passed and gone | C |
| Since danced the merry star that shone | D |
| Above the babe Mark Twain | B |
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| How many and many a weary day | E |
| When sad enough were we 'Mark's way' | F |
| Unlike the Laureate's Mark's | G |
| Has made us laugh until we cried | H |
| And sinking back exhausted sighed | H |
| Like Gargery Wot larx | G |
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| We turn his pages and we see | G |
| The Mississippi flowing free | G |
| We turn again and grin | I |
| O'er all Tom Sawyer did and planned | J |
| With him of the Ensanguined Hand | J |
| With Huckleberry Finn | I |
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| Spirit of mirth whose chime of bells | G |
| Shakes on his cap and sweetly swells | G |
| Across the Atlantic main | B |
| Grant that Mark's laughter never die | K |
| That men through many a century | G |
| May chuckle o'er Mark Twain | B |
Andrew Lang
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