A Parisian Episode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBD EEEE FBFB AEAE EGEG HIHI JIJI KLKL MNMN OGOG IIII| Upon Bottle Miche the autre day | A |
| While yet the nuit was early | B |
| Je met a homme whose barbe was grey | A |
| Whose cheveaux long and curly | B |
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| Je am a poete sir dit he | B |
| Je live where tres grande want teems | C |
| I'm faim sir Sil vous plait give me | B |
| Un franc or cinquatite centimes | D |
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| I donne him vingt big copper sous | E |
| But dit You moderne rhymers | E |
| The sacre poet name abuse | E |
| Les poets were old timers | E |
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| Je know I know he wept contrite | F |
| The bards no more suis mighty | B |
| Ils rise no more in eleve flight | F |
| Though some are beaucoup flighty | B |
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| Vous wonder why Je weep this way | A |
| Pour quoi these tears and blubbers | E |
| It is mon fault les bards today | A |
| Helas suis mere earth grubbers | E |
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| There was a time when tout might see | E |
| My grande flights dans the saddle | G |
| Crowned rois indeed applauded me | E |
| Le Pegasus astraddle | G |
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| Le winged horse avec acclaim | H |
| Was voted mon possession | I |
| Je rode him tous les jours to fame | H |
| Je led the whole procession | I |
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| Then arrivee the Prussian war | J |
| The siege the sacre famine | I |
| Then some had but a crust encore | J |
| We mange the last least ham an' | I |
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| Helas Mon noble winged steed | K |
| Went oft avec no dinner | L |
| On epics il refusee feed | K |
| And maigre grew and thinner | L |
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| Tout food was gone and dans the street | M |
| Each homme sought crusts to sate him | N |
| Joyeux were those with horse's meat | M |
| And Pegasus Je ate him | N |
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| My anger then Je could not hide | O |
| To parler scarcely able | G |
| Oh curses dans you sir Je cried | O |
| Vous human livery stable | G |
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| He fled But vous who read this know | I |
| Why mon pauvre verse is beaten | I |
| By that of cinquante years ago | I |
| 'Vant Pegasus fut eaten | I |
Ellis Parker Butler
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