Ode To Tobacco Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB BBBBBBBB DDDDDDDD DDDDDDDD DDDEFFFE| Thou who when fears attack | A |
| Bidst them avaunt and Black | A |
| Care at the horseman's back | A |
| Perching unseatest | B |
| Sweet when the morn is gray | C |
| Sweet when they've cleared away | C |
| Lunch and at close of day | C |
| Possibly sweetest | B |
| - | |
| I have a liking old | B |
| For thee though manifold | B |
| Stories I know are told | B |
| Not to thy credit | B |
| How one or two at most | B |
| Drops make a cat a ghost | B |
| Useless except to roast | B |
| Doctors have said it | B |
| - | |
| How they who use fusees | D |
| All grow by slow degrees | D |
| Brainless as chimpanzees | D |
| Meagre as lizards | D |
| Go mad and beat their wives | D |
| Plunge after shocking lives | D |
| Razors and carving knives | D |
| Into their gizzards | D |
| - | |
| Confound such knavish tricks | D |
| Yet know I five or six | D |
| Smokers who freely mix | D |
| Still with their neighbors | D |
| Jones who I'm glad to say | D |
| Asked leave of Mrs J | D |
| Daily absorbs a clay | D |
| After his labors | D |
| - | |
| Cats may have had their goose | D |
| Cooked by tobacco juice | D |
| Still why deny its use | D |
| Thoughtfully taken | E |
| We're not as tabbies are | F |
| Smith take a fresh cigar | F |
| Jones the tobacco jar | F |
| Here's to thee Bacon | E |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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