Consistency Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHBG IBGB BBJB KGBG| Should painter attach to a fair human head | A |
| The thick turgid neck of a stallion | B |
| Or depict a spruce lass with the tail of a bass | C |
| I am sure you would guy the rapscallion | B |
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| Believe me dear Pisos that just such a freak | D |
| Is the crude and preposterous poem | E |
| Which merely abounds in a torrent of sounds | F |
| With no depth of reason below 'em | E |
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| 'T is all very well to give license to art | G |
| The wisdom of license defend I | H |
| But the line should be drawn at the fripperish spawn | B |
| Of a mere cacoethes scribendi | G |
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| It is too much the fashion to strain at effects | I |
| Yes that's what's the matter with Hannah | B |
| Our popular taste by the tyros debased | G |
| Paints each barnyard a grove of Diana | B |
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| Should a patron require you to paint a marine | B |
| Would you work in some trees with their barks on | B |
| When his strict orders are for a Japanese jar | J |
| Would you give him a pitcher like Clarkson | B |
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| Now this is my moral Compose what you may | K |
| And Fame will be ever far distant | G |
| Unless you combine with a simple design | B |
| A treatment in toto consistent | G |
Eugene Field
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