What Is Fancy? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD ABCD AEBF AEBF AGHI AGHA AF AFJKSISTER | A |
I am to write three lines and you | B |
Three others that will rhyme | C |
There now I've done my task | D |
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BROTHER | A |
Three stupid lines as e'er I knew | B |
When you've the pen next time | C |
Some question of me ask | D |
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SISTER | A |
Then tell me brother and pray mind | E |
Brother you tell me true | B |
What sort of thing is fancy | F |
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BROTHER | A |
By all that I can ever find | E |
'Tis something that is very new | B |
And what no dunces can see | F |
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SISTER | A |
That is not half the way to tell | G |
What fancy is about | H |
So pray now tell me more | I |
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BROTHER | A |
Sister I think 'twere quite as well | G |
That you should find it out | H |
So think the matter o'er | A |
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SISTER | A |
It's what comes in our heads when we | F |
Play at 'Let's make believe ' | - |
And when we play at 'Guessing ' | - |
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BROTHER | A |
And I have heard it said to be | F |
A talent often makes us grieve | J |
And sometimes proves a blessing | K |
Charles Lamb
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