The Dong With A Luminous Nose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBC DDEFFEF EEEEGGHHEH IJKJLLIJMMNON ELHHLPPPJJCCQRSSNON LLL SSATC EEEEEEELLLLLLLLL HHUUATEEGGLLEEEEEWhen awful darkness and silence reign | A |
Over the great Gromboolian plain | A |
Through the long long wintry nights | B |
When the angry breakers roar | C |
As they beat on the rocky shore | C |
When Storm clouds brood on the towering heights | B |
Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore | C |
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Then through the vast and gloomy dark | D |
There moves what seems a fiery spark | D |
A lonely spark with silvery rays | E |
Piercing the coal black night | F |
A Meteor strange and bright | F |
Hither and thither the vision strays | E |
A single lurid light | F |
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Slowly it wanders pauses creeeps | E |
Anon it sparkles flashes and leaps | E |
And ever as onward it gleaming goes | E |
A light on the Bong tree stems it throws | E |
And those who watch at that midnight hour | G |
From Hall or Terrace or lofty Tower | G |
Cry as the wild light passes along | H |
'The Dong the Dong | H |
'The wandering Dong through the forest goes | E |
'The Dong the Dong | H |
'The Dong with a luminous Nose ' | - |
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Long years ago | I |
The Dong was happy and gay | J |
Till he fell in love with a Jumbly Girl | K |
Who came to those shores one day | J |
For the Jumblies came in a sieve they did | L |
Landing at eve near the Zemmery Fidd | L |
Where the Oblong Oysters grow | I |
And the rocks are smooth and gray | J |
And all the woods and the valleys rang | M |
With the Chorus they daily and nightly sang | M |
'Far and few far and few | N |
Are the lands where the Jumblies live | O |
Their heads are green and their hands are blue | N |
And they went to sea in a sieve ' | - |
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Happily happily passed those days | E |
While the cheerful Jumblies staid | L |
They danced in circlets all night long | H |
To the plaintive pipe of the lively Dong | H |
In moonlight shine or shade | L |
For day and night he was always there | P |
By the side of the Jumbly Girl so fair | P |
With her sky blue hands and her sea green hair | P |
Till the morning came of that hateful day | J |
When the Jumblies sailed in their sieve away | J |
And the Dong was left on the cruel shore | C |
Gazing gazing for evermore | C |
Ever keeping his weary eyes on | Q |
That pea green sail on the far horizon | R |
Singing the Jumbly Chorus still | S |
As he sate all day on the grassy hill | S |
'Far and few far and few | N |
Are the lands where the Jumblies live | O |
Their heads are green and their hands are blue | N |
And they went to sea in a sieve ' | - |
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But when the sun was low in the West | L |
The Dong arose and said | L |
'What little sense I once possessed | L |
'Has quite gone out of my head ' | - |
And since that day he wanders still | S |
By lake or forest marsh and hill | S |
Singing 'O somewhere in valley or plain | A |
'Might I find my Jumbly Girl again | T |
'For ever I'll seek by lake and shore | C |
'Till I find my Jumbly Girl once more ' | - |
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Playing a pipe with silvery squeaks | E |
Since then his Jumbly Girl he seeks | E |
And because by night he could not see | E |
He gathered the bark of the Twangum Tree | E |
On the flowery plain that grows | E |
And he wove him a wondrous Nose | E |
A Nose as strange as a Nose could be | E |
Of vast proportions and painted red | L |
And tied with cords to the back of his head | L |
In a hollow rounded space it ended | L |
With a luminous Lamp within suspended | L |
All fenced about | L |
With a bandage stout | L |
To prevent the wind from blowing it out | L |
And with holes all round to send the light | L |
In gleaming rays on the dismal night | L |
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And now each night and all night long | H |
Over those plains still roams the Dong | H |
And above the wall of the Chimp and Snipe | U |
You may hear the sqeak of his plaintive pipe | U |
While ever he seeks but seeks in vain | A |
To meet with his Jumbly Girl again | T |
Lonely and wild all night he goes | E |
The Dong with a luminous Nose | E |
And all who watch at the midnight hour | G |
From Hall or Terrace or lofty Tower | G |
Cry as they trace the Meteor bright | L |
Moving along through the dreary night | L |
'This is the hour when forth he goes | E |
'The Dong with a luminous Nose | E |
'Yonder over the plain he goes | E |
'He goes | E |
'He goes | E |
'The Dong with a luminous Nose ' | - |
Edward Lear
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