Striking Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFE GHII JKLKMKMM ANH OPEEE HAHKL L| It was a railway passenger | A |
| And he lept out jauntilie | B |
| 'Now up and bear thou stout porter | A |
| My two chattels to me | C |
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| 'Bring hither bring hither my bag so red | D |
| And portmanteau so brown | E |
| They lie in the van for a trusty man | F |
| He labelled them London town | E |
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| 'And fetch me eke a cabman bold | G |
| That I may be his fare his fare | H |
| And he shall have a good shilling | I |
| If by two of the clock he do me bring | I |
| To the Terminus Euston Square ' | - |
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| 'Now so to thee the saints alway | J |
| Good gentleman give luck | K |
| As never a cab may I find this day | L |
| For the cabman wights have struck | K |
| And now I wis at the Red Post Inn | M |
| Or else at the Dog and Duck | K |
| Or at Unicorn Blue or at Green Griffin | M |
| The nut brown ale and the fine old gin | M |
| Right pleasantly they do suck ' | - |
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| 'Now rede me aright thou stout porter | A |
| What were it best that I should do | N |
| For woe is me an I reach not there | H |
| Or ever the clock strike two ' | - |
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| 'I have a son a lytel son | O |
| Fleet is his foot as the wild roebuck's | P |
| Give him a shilling and eke a brown | E |
| And he shall carry thy chattels down | E |
| To Euston or half over London town | E |
| On one of the station trucks ' | - |
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| Then forth in a hurry did they twain fare | H |
| The gent and the son of the stout porter | A |
| Who fled like an arrow nor turned a hair | H |
| Through all the mire and muck | K |
| 'A ticket a ticket sir clerk I pray | L |
| For by two of the clock must I needs away ' | - |
| 'That may hardly be ' the clerk did say | L |
| 'For indeed the clocks have struck ' | - |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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