Rhyme Of Oxford Cockney Rhymes'(exhibited In The Oxford Magazine) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGDGHDHD IGIEDEDE JKJKLKLK FFFFEEEE FEFEEMEM FNFNOFOFThough Keats rhymed ear to Cytherea | A |
And Morris dawn to morn | B |
A worse example it is clear | C |
By Oxford Dons is shorn | B |
G y of Magdalen goes beyond | D |
These puny Cockneys far | E |
And to Magrath rhymes Muse despond | D |
Magrath he rhymes to star | E |
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Another poet X Y Z | F |
Employs the word researcher | G |
And then his blood be on his head | D |
He makes it rhyme to nurture | G |
Ah never was the English tongue | H |
So flayed and racked and tortured | D |
Since one I love who should be hung | H |
Made tortured rhyme to orchard | D |
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Unkindly G y's raging pen | I |
Next craves a rhyme to sooner | G |
Rejecting Spooner best of men | I |
He fastens on LACUNA R | E |
Nay worse in his infatuate mind | D |
He ends a line explainer | E |
Nor any rhyme can G y find | D |
Until he reaches Jena r | E |
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Yes G y shines the worst of all | J |
He needs to rhyme embargo | K |
The man had Margot at his call | J |
He had the good ship ARGO | K |
Largo he had yet doth he seek | L |
Further and no embargo | K |
Restrains him from the odious weak | L |
And Cockney rhyme Chicago | K |
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Ye Oxford Dons that Cockneys be | F |
Among your gardens tidy | F |
If you would ask a maid to tea | F |
D'ye call the girl a lydy | F |
And if you'd sing of Mr Fry | E |
And need a rhyme to swiper | E |
Are you so cruel as to try | E |
To fill the blank with paper | E |
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Oh Hoxford was a pleasant plice | F |
To many a poet dear | E |
And Saccharissa had the grice | F |
In Hoxford to appear | E |
But Waller if to Cytherea | E |
He prayed at any time | M |
Did not implore her friendly ear | E |
And think he had a rhyme | M |
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Now if you ask to what are due | F |
The horrors which I mention | N |
I think we owe them to the U | F |
Niversity extension | N |
From Hoxton and from Poplar come | O |
The 'Arriets and 'Arries | F |
And so the Oxford Muse is dumb | O |
Or when she sings miscarries | F |
Andrew Lang
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