On A Vulgar Error Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA ACA ADA EDE FDG EDG HH| No It's an impudent falsehood Men did not | A |
| Invariably think the newer way Prosaic | B |
| mad inelegant or what not | A |
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| Was the first pointed arch esteemed a blot | A |
| Upon the church Did anybody say How | C |
| modern and how ugly They did not | A |
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| Plate armour or windows glazed or verse fire hot | A |
| With rhymes from France or spices from Cathay | D |
| Were these at first a horror They were not | A |
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| If then our present arts laws houses food | E |
| All set us hankering after yesterday | D |
| Need this be only an archaising mood | E |
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| Why any man whose purse has been let blood | F |
| By sharpers when he finds all drained away | D |
| Must compare how he stands with how he stood | G |
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| If a quack doctor's breezy ineptitude | E |
| Has cost me a leg must I forget straightway | D |
| All that I can't do now all that I could | G |
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| So when our guides unanimously decry | H |
| The backward glance I think we can guess why | H |
Clive Staples Lewis
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