Mr. Nixon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB BCDEB FGHI JKBB LM BNOP QBPB RSTU VWXW BEXXE EBBE BY ZB EEBE JEPE BXPX EBEB A2PBP BBEB| In the cream gilded cabin of his steam yacht | A |
| Mr Nixon advised me kindly to advance with fewer | B |
| Dangers of delay 'Consider | B |
| Carefully the reviewer | B |
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| 'I was as poor as you are | B |
| 'When I began I got of course | C |
| 'Advance on royalties fifty at first ' said Mr Nixon | D |
| 'Follow me and take a column | E |
| 'Even if you have to work free | B |
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| 'Butter reviewers From fifty to three hundred | F |
| 'I rose in eighteen months | G |
| 'The hardest nut I had to crack | H |
| 'Was Dr Dundas | I |
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| 'I never mentioned a man but with the view | J |
| 'Of selling my own works | K |
| 'The tip's a good one as for literature | B |
| 'It gives no man a sinecure | B |
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| 'And no one knows at sight a masterpiece | L |
| 'And give up verse my boy | M |
| 'There's nothing in it ' | - |
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| Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me | B |
| Don't kick against the pricks | N |
| Accept opinion The 'Nineties' tried your game | O |
| And died there's nothing in it | P |
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| X | - |
| Beneath the sagging roof | Q |
| The stylist has taken shelter | B |
| Unpaid uncelebrated | P |
| At last from the world's welter | B |
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| Nature receives him | R |
| With a placid and uneducated mistress | S |
| He exercises his talents | T |
| And the soil meets his distress | U |
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| The haven from sophistications and contentions | V |
| Leaks through its thatch | W |
| He offers succulent cooking | X |
| The door has a creaking latch | W |
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| XI | B |
| Conservatrix of Mil sien' | E |
| Habits of mind and feeling | X |
| Possibly But in Ealing | X |
| With the most bank clerkly of Englishmen | E |
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| No 'Mil sian' is an exaggeration | E |
| No instinct has survived in her | B |
| Older than those her grandmother | B |
| Told her would fit her station | E |
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| XII | B |
| Daphne with her thighs in bark | Y |
| Stretches toward me her leafy hands ' | - |
| Subjectively In the stuffed satin drawing room | Z |
| I await The Lady Valentine's commands | B |
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| Knowing my coat has never been | E |
| Of precisely the fashion | E |
| To stimulate in her | B |
| A durable passion | E |
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| Doubtful somewhat of the value | J |
| Of well gowned approbation | E |
| Of literary effort | P |
| But never of The Lady Valentine's vocation | E |
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| Poetry her border of ideas | B |
| The edge uncertain but a means of blending | X |
| With other strata | P |
| Where the lower and higher have ending | X |
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| A hook to catch the Lady Jane's attention | E |
| A modulation toward the theatre | B |
| Also in the case of revolution | E |
| A possible friend and comforter | B |
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| Conduct on the other hand the soul | A2 |
| Which the highest cultures have nourished' | P |
| To Fleet St where | B |
| Dr Johnson flourished | P |
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| Beside this thoroughfare | B |
| The sale of half hose has | B |
| Long since superseded the cultivation | E |
| Of Pierian roses | B |
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