The Palace O Bric-a-brac Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCCCB DEDEDDDE FGFGCCCG HEHEBBBE BHBHBBBH| Here where old Nankin glitters | A |
| Here where men's tumult seems | B |
| As faint as feeble twitters | B |
| Of sparrows heard in dreams | B |
| We watch Limoges enamel | C |
| An old chased silver camel | C |
| A shawl the gift of Schamyl | C |
| And manuscripts in reams | B |
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| Here where the hawthorn pattern | D |
| On flawless cup and plate | E |
| Need fear no housemaid slattern | D |
| Fell minister of fate | E |
| 'Mid webs divinely woven | D |
| And helms and hauberks cloven | D |
| On music of Beethoven | D |
| We dream and meditate | E |
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| We know not and we need not | F |
| To know how mortals fare | G |
| Of Bills that pass or speed not | F |
| Time finds us unaware | G |
| Yea creeds and codes may crumble | C |
| And Dilke and Gladstone stumble | C |
| And eat the pie that's humble | C |
| We neither know nor care | G |
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| Can kings or clergies alter | H |
| The crackle on one plate | E |
| Can creeds or systems palter | H |
| With what is truly great | E |
| With Corots and with Millets | B |
| With April daffodillies | B |
| Or make the maiden lilies | B |
| Bloom early or bloom late | E |
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| Nay here 'midst Rhodian roses | B |
| 'Midst tissues of Cashmere | H |
| The Soul sublime reposes | B |
| And knows not hope nor fear | H |
| Here all she sees her own is | B |
| And musical her moan is | B |
| O'er Caxtons and Bodonis | B |
| Aldine and Elzevir | H |
Andrew Lang
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