Song Of Snobs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE F CC GGHHIIJK LLMM| When Leonardo was a lad there was a certain set | A |
| Who snubbed him most outrageously in fact they snub him yet | A |
| He wasn't in the fashion so he wasn't in the fold | B |
| Before his death he was too new and now he grows too old | B |
| Because his art was new to them the snobs of Florence laughed | C |
| And now because he isn't new the moderns scorn his craft | C |
| 'Da Vinci Don't be crude my dear Call him an artist Pshaw | D |
| Why that old anachronism so they say knew how to draw ' | E |
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| They have wandered thro' the ages mouthing cliches as they go | F |
| At first nights and private views 'mid the people 'one should know ' | - |
| But the artist goes on laughing as thro' every age he's laughed | C |
| At snobs who patronise the 'Arts ' but boggle at the craft | C |
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| When Shakespeare sought draw the crowds and please the taste of town | G |
| And watched box office takings with a worn and worried frown | G |
| Kit Marlowe knew Ben Jonson knew what stuff was in the lad | H |
| But the dilettanti voted him quite definitely bad | H |
| The fellow simply stole his plots they said with lofty sneers | I |
| And served them up most vulgarly to tickle groundling's ears | I |
| 'Will Shakespeare That cheap showman | J |
| Why the man's quite gauche my dear | K |
| I prefer them cultivated like dear Bacon and de Vere ' | - |
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| So reputations surge and sink as lifts and ebbs the tide | L |
| Now wallowing within the trough now on the crest they ride | L |
| But the snobs are ever with us snobs of art of place of pelf | M |
| And reading this I rather think I might be one myself | M |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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