To Correspondents Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EEEEFEFE EE EG GF HEHEEHEH| My Postman though I fear thy tread | A |
| And tremble as thy foot draws nearer | B |
| 'Tis not the Christmas Dun I dread | A |
| MY mortal foe is much severer | B |
| The Unknown Correspondent who | C |
| With undefatigable pen | D |
| And nothing in the world to do | C |
| Perplexes literary men | D |
| - | |
| From Pentecost and Ponder's End | E |
| They write from Deal and from Dacotah | E |
| The people of the Shetlands send | E |
| No inconsiderable quota | E |
| They write for autographs in vain | F |
| In vain does Phyllis write and Flora | E |
| They write that Allan Quatermain | F |
| Is not at all the book for Brora | E |
| - | |
| They write to say that 'they have met | E |
| This writer 'at a garden party | E |
| And though' this writer 'may forget ' | - |
| their recollection's keen and hearty | E |
| 'And will you praise in your reviews | G |
| A novel by our distant cousin ' | - |
| These letters from Provincial Blues | G |
| Assail us daily by the dozen | F |
| - | |
| O friends with time upon your hands | H |
| O friends with postage stamps in plenty | E |
| O poets out of many lands | H |
| O youths and maidens under twenty | E |
| Seek out some other wretch to bore | E |
| Or wreak yourselves upon your neighbours | H |
| And leave me to my dusty lore | E |
| And my unprofitable labours | H |
Andrew Lang
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