The Dong With A Luminous Nose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBC DDEFFEF EEEEGGHHEH IJKJLLIJMMNON ELHHLPPPJJCCQRSSNON LLL SSATC EEEEEEELLLLLLLLL HHUUATEEGGLLEEEEE

When awful darkness and silence reignA
Over the great Gromboolian plainA
Through the long long wintry nightsB
When the angry breakers roarC
As they beat on the rocky shoreC
When Storm clouds brood on the towering heightsB
Of the Hills of the Chankly BoreC
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Then through the vast and gloomy darkD
There moves what seems a fiery sparkD
A lonely spark with silvery raysE
Piercing the coal black nightF
A Meteor strange and brightF
Hither and thither the vision straysE
A single lurid lightF
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Slowly it wanders pauses creeepsE
Anon it sparkles flashes and leapsE
And ever as onward it gleaming goesE
A light on the Bong tree stems it throwsE
And those who watch at that midnight hourG
From Hall or Terrace or lofty TowerG
Cry as the wild light passes alongH
'The Dong the DongH
'The wandering Dong through the forest goesE
'The Dong the DongH
'The Dong with a luminous Nose '-
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Long years agoI
The Dong was happy and gayJ
Till he fell in love with a Jumbly GirlK
Who came to those shores one dayJ
For the Jumblies came in a sieve they didL
Landing at eve near the Zemmery FiddL
Where the Oblong Oysters growI
And the rocks are smooth and grayJ
And all the woods and the valleys rangM
With the Chorus they daily and nightly sangM
'Far and few far and fewN
Are the lands where the Jumblies liveO
Their heads are green and their hands are blueN
And they went to sea in a sieve '-
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Happily happily passed those daysE
While the cheerful Jumblies staidL
They danced in circlets all night longH
To the plaintive pipe of the lively DongH
In moonlight shine or shadeL
For day and night he was always thereP
By the side of the Jumbly Girl so fairP
With her sky blue hands and her sea green hairP
Till the morning came of that hateful dayJ
When the Jumblies sailed in their sieve awayJ
And the Dong was left on the cruel shoreC
Gazing gazing for evermoreC
Ever keeping his weary eyes onQ
That pea green sail on the far horizonR
Singing the Jumbly Chorus stillS
As he sate all day on the grassy hillS
'Far and few far and fewN
Are the lands where the Jumblies liveO
Their heads are green and their hands are blueN
And they went to sea in a sieve '-
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But when the sun was low in the WestL
The Dong arose and saidL
'What little sense I once possessedL
'Has quite gone out of my head '-
And since that day he wanders stillS
By lake or forest marsh and hillS
Singing 'O somewhere in valley or plainA
'Might I find my Jumbly Girl againT
'For ever I'll seek by lake and shoreC
'Till I find my Jumbly Girl once more '-
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Playing a pipe with silvery squeaksE
Since then his Jumbly Girl he seeksE
And because by night he could not seeE
He gathered the bark of the Twangum TreeE
On the flowery plain that growsE
And he wove him a wondrous NoseE
A Nose as strange as a Nose could beE
Of vast proportions and painted redL
And tied with cords to the back of his headL
In a hollow rounded space it endedL
With a luminous Lamp within suspendedL
All fenced aboutL
With a bandage stoutL
To prevent the wind from blowing it outL
And with holes all round to send the lightL
In gleaming rays on the dismal nightL
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And now each night and all night longH
Over those plains still roams the DongH
And above the wall of the Chimp and SnipeU
You may hear the sqeak of his plaintive pipeU
While ever he seeks but seeks in vainA
To meet with his Jumbly Girl againT
Lonely and wild all night he goesE
The Dong with a luminous NoseE
And all who watch at the midnight hourG
From Hall or Terrace or lofty TowerG
Cry as they trace the Meteor brightL
Moving along through the dreary nightL
'This is the hour when forth he goesE
'The Dong with a luminous NoseE
'Yonder over the plain he goesE
'He goesE
'He goesE
'The Dong with a luminous Nose '-

Edward Lear



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