Anecdote For Fathers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCD EFEF GHGH CICJ KLKL FMFM NMO MPM Q F RMS SFS TUTU VWVW XFX YZYZ| Designed to show that the practice of lying is not confined to children | A |
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| By the late W W of H M Inland Revenue Service | B |
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| And is it so Can Folly stalk | C |
| And aim her unrespecting darts | D |
| In shades where grave Professors walk | C |
| And Bachelors of Arts | D |
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| I have a boy not six years old | E |
| A sprite of birth and lineage high | F |
| His birth I did myself behold | E |
| His caste is in his eye | F |
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| And oh his limbs are full of grace | G |
| His boyish beauty past compare | H |
| His mother's joy to wash his face | G |
| And mine to brush his hair | H |
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| One morn we strolled on our short walk | C |
| With four goloshes on our shoes | I |
| And held the customary talk | C |
| That parents love to use | J |
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| And oft I turn it into verse | K |
| And write it down upon a page | L |
| Which being sold supplies my purse | K |
| And ministers to age | L |
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| So as we paced the curving High | F |
| To view the sights of Oxford town | M |
| We raised our feet like Nelly Bly | F |
| And then we put them down | M |
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| 'Now little Edward answer me' | N |
| I said and clutched him by the gown | M |
| 'At Cambridge would you rather be | O |
| Or here in Oxford town ' | - |
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| My boy replied with tiny frown | M |
| He'd been a year at Cavendish | P |
| 'I'd rather dwell in Oxford town | M |
| If I could have my wish ' | - |
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| 'Now little Edward say why so | Q |
| My little Edward tell me why ' | - |
| 'Well really Pa I hardly know ' | - |
| 'Remarkable ' said I | F |
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| 'For Cambridge has her King's Parade | R |
| And much the more becoming gown | M |
| Why should you slight her so ' I said | S |
| 'Compared with Oxford town ' | - |
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| At this my boy hung down his head | S |
| While sterner grew the parent's eye | F |
| And six and thirty times I said | S |
| 'Come Edward tell me why ' | - |
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| For I loved Cambridge where they deal | T |
| How strange in butter by the yard | U |
| And so with every third appeal | T |
| I hit him rather hard | U |
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| Twelve times I struck as may be seen | V |
| For three times twelve is thirty six | W |
| When in a shop the Magazine | V |
| His tearful sight did fix | W |
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| He saw it plain it made him smile | X |
| And thus to me he made reply | F |
| 'At Oxford there's a Crocodile | X |
| And that's the reason why ' | - |
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| Oh Mr Editor my heart | Y |
| For deeper lore would seldom yearn | Z |
| Could I believe the hundredth part | Y |
| Of what from you I learn | Z |
Arthur Thomas Quiller-couch
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