A Duty Done - 1935 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBBBDD EBFBBBBBB BBGBBBBBB HBIBBBBBB| The swallows are back and I'm tuning my lyre | A |
| For today 'tis my duty to sing | B |
| A melodious lay that is graciously gay | C |
| To welcome officially spring | B |
| Ting a ling | B |
| So let's have a song with a swing | B |
| Bing | B |
| High cockalorum and fal de rah whack | D |
| Young Spring's in the offing The swallows are back | D |
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| To put sense in the song matters little so long | E |
| As the lift and the lilt of it ring | B |
| And a mention be made of the wattle hung glade | F |
| Where the blithering birds are a wing | B |
| Ting a ling | B |
| And the clamorous honey bees cling | B |
| Z z z ing | B |
| Tho' I'm scarce in the humor alas and alack | B |
| Ho merry down derry The swallows are back | B |
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| So officially Hi Oh salubrious sky | B |
| What a dear and delectable thing | B |
| To behold such a blue as old Arcady knew | G |
| When er Strephan or someone was king | B |
| Ting a ling | B |
| And life held nor arrow nor sling | B |
| Ping | B |
| Ah the fervor is forced but I mustn't get slack | B |
| Tho' the rhymes may run low for the swallows are back | B |
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| But privily oh my vitality's low | H |
| And a sneer at the season I fling | B |
| For I gasp and I wheeze in the weary unease | I |
| Of the plagues that the pollen days bring | B |
| Ting a ling | B |
| I'm insipid as second hand string | B |
| Ring | B |
| Ah ring down the curtain I've gone to the pack | B |
| But a last word in closing the swallows are back | B |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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