The Exiles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE F FGH HA IJIJKAKA LMLMANCThey were a merrie companie | A |
Who'd dwelt together all these years | B |
A little mixed in type maybe | C |
Yet prone to mingle now as peers | B |
For old acquaintance sake and so | D |
Bewilderment about them swirled | E |
When told abruptly they must go | D |
From these snug shelves back to the world | E |
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Bill Sikes wept over Little Nell | F |
Pickwick and Cratchit cried 'Too bad ' | - |
Tom Pinch and Fagin said farewell | F |
Uriah Heep was humbly sad | G |
And Nickleby and Copperfield | H |
Shook hands and said 'Good bye old man ' | - |
And even Daniel Quilp appealed | H |
To gods of fiction 'gainst the ban | A |
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Smike took his leave of Barney Rudge | I |
Pecksniff pledged Salry one last cup | J |
Micawber vowed he would not budge | I |
For something surely must turn up | J |
And something surely did for news | K |
Now spreads among the exiled clan | A |
That some old friend with kindly views | K |
Proposes to reverse the ban | A |
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Sam Weller kisses Sally Brass | L |
Alf Jingle hugs old Bumble tight | M |
Scrooge dances with the Vardon lass | L |
And all are crazy with delight | M |
Again a merrie companie | A |
Or soon to be so as before | N |
And Swiveller sighs and says 'Thanks be | C |
Safe from my creditors once more ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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