Poking Fun At Xanthias Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD CECEFGHG ICICJCJC KLKLCMCM| Of your love for your handmaid you need feel no shame | A |
| Don't apologize Xanthias pray | B |
| Remember Achilles the proud felt a flame | A |
| For Brissy his slave as they say | B |
| Old Telamon's son fiery Ajax was moved | C |
| By the captive Tecmessa's ripe charms | D |
| And Atrides suspending the feast it behooved | C |
| To gather a girl to his arms | D |
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| Now how do you know that this yellow haired maid | C |
| This Phyllis you fain would enjoy | E |
| Hasn't parents whose wealth would cast you in the shade | C |
| Who would ornament you Xan my boy | E |
| Very likely the poor chick sheds copious tears | F |
| And is bitterly thinking the while | G |
| Of the royal good times of her earlier years | H |
| When her folks regulated the style | G |
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| It won't do at all my dear boy to believe | I |
| That she of whose charms you are proud | C |
| Is beautiful only as means to deceive | I |
| Merely one of the horrible crowd | C |
| So constant a sweetheart so loving a wife | J |
| So averse to all notions of greed | C |
| Was surely not born of a mother whose life | J |
| Is a chapter you'd better not read | C |
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| As an unbiased party I feel it my place | K |
| For I don't like to do things by halves | L |
| To compliment Phyllis her arms and her face | K |
| And excuse me her delicate calves | L |
| Tut tut don't get angry my boy or suspect | C |
| You have any occasion to fear | M |
| A man whose deportment is always correct | C |
| And is now in his forty first year | M |
Eugene Field
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