To De Witt Miller Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADED FGHG IDJD KLMN OPDP HGPG QRBS| Dear Miller You and I despise | A |
| The cad who gathers books to sell 'em | B |
| Be they but sixteen mos in cloth | C |
| Or stately folios garbed in vellum | B |
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| But when one fellow has a prize | A |
| Another bibliophile is needing | D |
| Why then a satisfactory trade | E |
| Is quite a laudable proceeding | D |
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| There's precedent in Bristol's case | F |
| The great collector preacher farmer | G |
| And in the case of that divine | H |
| Who shrives the soul of P D Armour | G |
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| When from their sapient saintly lips | I |
| The words of wisdom are not dropping | D |
| They turn to trade that is to say | J |
| When they're not preaching they are swapping | D |
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| So to the flock it doth appear | K |
| That this a most conspicuous fact is | L |
| That which these godly pastors do | M |
| Must surely be a proper practice | N |
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| Now here's a pretty prize indeed | O |
| On which De Vinne's art is lavished | P |
| Harkee the bonny dainty thing | D |
| Is simply waiting to be ravished | P |
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| And you have that for which I pine | H |
| As you should pine for this fair creature | G |
| Come now suppose we make a trade | P |
| You take this gem and send the Beecher | G |
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| Surely these graceful tender songs | Q |
| In samite garb with lots of gilt on | R |
| Are more to you than those dull tome | B |
| Her pastor gave to Lizzie Tilton | S |
Eugene Field
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