There Stands A City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC DEFE DGD DHD DIDI JKJL MNMO DPDP DQDQ BRBR STST UVUV DSD STST JWJW| Ingoldsby | A |
| Year by year do Beauty's daughters | B |
| In the sweetest gloves and shawls | C |
| Troop to taste the Chattenham waters | B |
| And adorn the Chattenham balls | C |
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| 'Nulla non donanda lauru' | D |
| Is that city you could not | E |
| Placing England's map before you | F |
| Light on a more favoured spot | E |
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| If no clear translucent river | D |
| Winds 'neath willow shaded paths | G |
| 'Children and adults' may shiver | D |
| All day in 'Chalybeate baths ' | - |
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| If 'the inimitable Fechter' | D |
| Never brings the gallery down | H |
| Constantly 'the Great Protector' | D |
| There 'rejects the British crown ' | - |
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| And on every side the painter | D |
| Looks on wooded vale and plain | I |
| And on fair hills faint and fainter | D |
| Outlined as they near the main | I |
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| There I met with him my chosen | J |
| Friend the 'long' but not 'stern swell ' a | K |
| Faultless in his hats and hosen | J |
| Whom the Johnian lawns know well | L |
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| Oh my comrade ever valued | M |
| Still I see your festive face | N |
| Hear you humming of 'the gal you'd | M |
| Left behind' in massive bass | O |
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| See you sit with that composure | D |
| On the eeliest of hacks | P |
| That the novice would suppose your | D |
| Manly limbs encased in wax | P |
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| Or anon when evening lent her | D |
| Tranquil light to hill and vale | Q |
| Urge towards the table's centre | D |
| With unerring hand the squail | Q |
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| Ah delectablest of summers | B |
| How my heart that 'muffled drum' | R |
| Which ignores the aid of drummers | B |
| Beats as back thy memories come | R |
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| Oh among the dancers peerless | S |
| Fleet of foot and soft of eye | T |
| Need I say to you that cheerless | S |
| Must my days be till I die | T |
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| At my side she mashed the fragrant | U |
| Strawberry lashes soft as silk | V |
| Drooped o'er saddened eyes when vagrant | U |
| Gnats sought watery graves in milk | V |
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| Then we danced we walked together | D |
| Talked no doubt on trivial topics | S |
| Such as Blondin or the weather | D |
| Which 'recalled us to the tropics ' | - |
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| But oh in the deuxtemps peerless | S |
| Fleet of foot and soft of eye | T |
| Once more I repeat that cheerless | S |
| Shall my days be till I die | T |
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| And the lean and hungry raven | J |
| As he picks my bones will start | W |
| To observe 'M N ' engraven | J |
| Neatly on my blighted heart | W |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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