The Book Hunter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJKJLMLM LELELALA ENENOPOP| I've spent all my money in chasing | A |
| For books that are costly and rare | B |
| I've made myself bankrupt in tracing | A |
| Each prize to its ultimate lair | B |
| And now I'm a ruined collector | C |
| Impoverished ragged and thin | D |
| Reduced to a vanishing spectre | C |
| Because of my prodigal sin | D |
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| How often I've called upon Foley | E |
| The man who's a friend of the cranks | F |
| Knows books that are witty or holy | E |
| And whether they're prizes or blanks | F |
| For volumes on paper or vellum | G |
| He has a most accurate eye | H |
| And always is willing to sell 'em | G |
| To dreamers like me who will buy | H |
| - | |
| My purse requires fences and hedges | I |
| Alas it will never stay shut | J |
| My coat sleeves now have deckle edges | K |
| My hair is unkempt and uncut | J |
| My coat is a true first edition | L |
| And rusty from shoulder to waist | M |
| My trousers are out of condition | L |
| Their colophon worn and defaced | M |
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| My shoes have been long out of fashion | L |
| Crushed leather they both seem to be | E |
| My hat is a thing for compassion | L |
| The kind that is labelled n d | E |
| My vest from its binding is broken | L |
| It's what the French call a relique | A |
| What I think of it cannot be spoken | L |
| Its catalogue mark is unique | A |
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| I'm a book that is thumbed and untidy | E |
| The only one left of the set | N |
| I'm sure I was issued on Friday | E |
| For fate is unkind to me yet | N |
| My text has been cruelly garbled | O |
| By a destiny harder than flint | P |
| But I wait for my grave to be marbled | O |
| And then I shall be out of print | P |
Arthur Macy
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