What Is Fancy? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD ABCD AEBF AEBF AGHI AGHA AF AFJK| SISTER | 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 |
| - | |
| 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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