The Gloomy Victorian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCDEFEEFGHGHIJ HHHHKLLLK AMAMNNOPPOHHQHHQRARR AAAAS T| Where is this glum Victorian | A |
| This man of mien forlorn | B |
| Fit but for some historian | A |
| To heap with heavy scorn | B |
| I've sought him up an down the street | C |
| Thro' labyrinthine ways | D |
| Wherever men and maidens meet | C |
| By road or rail or on two feet | C |
| I've searched for him for days | D |
| I've looked for him where business cares | E |
| Weigh down on every rank | F |
| Seeking to catch him unawares | E |
| In tears upon the office stairs | E |
| Yet ever drew a blank | F |
| I've sought him in the hinterland | G |
| On Sunny Saturdays | H |
| He smiled a while and waved his hand | G |
| Amid his draughts and drays | H |
| And said 'Excuse me I must catch | I |
| This bus to see a football match ' | J |
| And gaily went his ways | H |
| In palaces and picture shows | H |
| Where e'er a soul for solace goes | H |
| I've hunted him and goodness knows | H |
| He seemed too gay by half | K |
| And neither consciousness of sin | L |
| Nor sorrow kept his gladness in | L |
| For truth to tell his silly grin | L |
| Fled only for a laugh | K |
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| Where is this glum Victorian | A |
| Man of the brooding eye | M |
| His story tho' a hoary 'un | A |
| I've failed to verify | M |
| I've sought him on the sandy beach | N |
| Mid shining sheik and perfect peach | N |
| But he was never there | O |
| I've sought him in the gleaming bush | P |
| Mid many a merry hiking push | P |
| And moaned in my despair | O |
| I've sought him him on the sunlit course | H |
| Doing his dough on some slow horse | H |
| And glimpsed a gloomy note | Q |
| But swiftly moved by some queer force | H |
| He grinned and backed without remorse | H |
| Another hairy goat | Q |
| Then hopeless haggard and distraught | R |
| I met a ragged man | A |
| And pitifullyhim besought | R |
| To tell me where he might be caught | R |
| This glum Victorian | A |
| He looked me up he looked me down | A |
| And tho' he seemed a sorry clown | A |
| A merry smile replaced his frown | A |
| As thus to me he spoke | S |
| 'So far I ain't met such 'tis true ' | - |
| Said he 'but by the looks of you | T |
| I reckon you're the bloke ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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