A Letter To My Aunt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDAACCEEFF GGHHCCII HHIIIIGGII IIIIIJJCCCCICCCDDIIG GHHKK CCCAA LLMJPoetry | A |
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To you my aunt who would explore | B |
The literary Chankley Bore | B |
The paths are hard for you are not | C |
A literary Hottentot | C |
But just a kind and cultured dame | D |
Who knows not Eliot to her shame | D |
Fie on you aunt that you should see | A |
No genius in David G | A |
No elemental form and sound | C |
In T S E and Ezra Pound | C |
Fie on you aunt I'll show you how | E |
To elevate your middle brow | E |
And how to scale and see the sights | F |
From modernist Parnassian heights | F |
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First buy a hat no Paris model | G |
But one the Swiss wear when they yodel | G |
A bowler thing with one or two | H |
Feathers to conceal the view | H |
And then in sandals walk the street | C |
All modern painters use their feet | C |
For painting on their canvas strips | I |
Their wives or mothers minus hips | I |
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Perhaps it would be best if you | H |
Created something very new | H |
A dirty novel done in Erse | I |
Or written backwards in Welsh verse | I |
Or paintings on the backs of vests | I |
Or Sanskrit psalms on lepers' chests | I |
But if this proved imposs i ble | G |
Perhaps it would be just as well | G |
For you could then write what you please | I |
And modern verse is done with ease | I |
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Do not forget that 'limpet' rhymes | I |
With 'strumpet' in these troubled times | I |
And commas are the worst of crimes | I |
Few understand the works of Cummings | I |
And few James Joyce's mental slummings | I |
And few young Auden's coded chatter | J |
But then it is the few that matter | J |
Never be lucid never state | C |
If you would be regarded great | C |
The simplest thought or sentiment | C |
For thought we know is decadent | C |
Never omit such vital words | I |
As belly genitals and | C |
For these are things that play a part | C |
And what a part in all good art | C |
Remember this each rose is wormy | D |
And every lovely woman's germy | D |
Remember this that love depends | I |
On how the Gallic letter bends | I |
Remember too that life is hell | G |
And even heaven has a smell | G |
Of putrefying angels who | H |
Make deadly whoopee in the blue | H |
These things remembered what can stop | K |
A poet going to the top | K |
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A final word before you start | C |
The convulsions of your art | C |
Remove your brains take out your heart | C |
Minus these curses you can be | A |
A genius like David G | A |
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Take courage aunt and send your stuff | L |
To Geoffrey Grigson with my luff | L |
And may I yet live to admire | M |
How well your poems light the fire | J |
Dylan Thomas
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