Ode To Tobacco Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB BBBBBBBB DDDDDDDD DDDDDDDD DDDEFFFEThou 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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