How Pleasant To Know Mr. Lear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEE GHIH JKJK LELE MNMN OAOA| How pleasant to know Mr Lear | A |
| Who has written such volumes of stuff | B |
| Some think him ill tempered and queer | A |
| But a few find him pleasant enough | B |
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| His mind is concrete and fastidious | C |
| His nose is remarkably big | D |
| His visage is more or less hideous | C |
| His beard it resembles a wig | D |
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| He has ears and two eyes and ten fingers | E |
| Leastways if you reckon two thumbs | F |
| He used to be one of the singers | E |
| But now he is one of the dumbs | E |
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| He sits in a beautiful parlour | G |
| With hundreds of books on the wall | H |
| He drinks a great deal of marsala | I |
| But never gets tipsy at all | H |
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| He has many friends laymen and clerical | J |
| Old Foss is the name of his cat | K |
| His body is perfectly spherical | J |
| He weareth a runcible hat | K |
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| When he walks in waterproof white | L |
| The children run after him so | E |
| Calling out He's gone out in his night | L |
| Gown that crazy old Englishman oh | E |
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| He weeps by the side of the ocean | M |
| He weeps on the top of the hill | N |
| He purchases pancakes and lotion | M |
| And chocolate shrimps from the mill | N |
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| He reads but he does not speak Spanish | O |
| He cannot abide ginger beer | A |
| Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish | O |
| How pleasant to know Mr Lear | A |
Edward Lear
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