Bedbooks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HGHG AIAI AAAA AJA KD D LGLG| There is said to be a steady demand for 'bedbooks' | A |
| in England There are readers who find in Gibbon a | B |
| sedative for tired nerves there are others who enjoy | C |
| Trollope's quiet humour Some people find in Henry | D |
| James's tangled syntax the restful diversion they seek | E |
| and others enjoy Mr Howells's unexciting realism | F |
| The Sun | G |
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| How sleep the brave who sink to rest | H |
| Lulled by the waves of dreamy diction | G |
| Like that appearing in the best | H |
| Of modern fiction | G |
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| When sleeplessness the Briton claims | A |
| And hits him with her wakeful wallop | I |
| He goes to Gibbon or to James | A |
| Or maybe Trollope | I |
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| No paltry limit such as those | A |
| The craving slumber Yankee curses | A |
| He has a wealth of poppy prose | A |
| And opiate verses | A |
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| A grain of ought I mention names | A |
| And say whence sleep may be inspired | J |
| Is it the thing to say of James | A |
| 'He makes me tired ' | - |
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| To say 'a dose of Phillips or | K |
| A capsule of Sinclair or Brady | D |
| Is just the thing to make me snore ' | - |
| Oh lackadaydee | D |
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| Nay It were churlish to review | L |
| And specify by marked attention | G |
| Our bedbooks They are far too nu | L |
| Merous to mention | G |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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