The Carlysles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDDEEABAABBEE A AF G H A AI J KB L AA| I was talking with a newspaper man the other day who seemed to think that the fact that Mrs Carlyle threw a teacup at Mr Carlyle should be given to the public merely as a fact But a fact presented to the people without the proper or even if necessary without the improper human being to go with it does not mean anything and does not really become alive or caper about in people's minds But what I want and what I believe most people want when a fact is being presented is one or two touches that will make natural and human questions rise in and play about like this 'Did a servant see Mrs Carlyle throw the teacup Was the servant an English servant with an English imagination or an Irish servant with an Irish imagination What would the fact have been like if Mr Browning had been listening at the keyhole Or Oscar Wilde or Punch or the Missionary Herald or The New York Sun or the Christian Science Monitor GERALD STANLEY LEE in the Saturday Evening Post | A |
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| BY OUR OWN ROBERT BROWNING | B |
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| As a poet heart and fancy free whole | C |
| I listened at the Carlyle's keyhole | C |
| And I saw I Robert Browning saw | D |
| Tom hurl a teacup at Jane's jaw | D |
| She silent sat nor tried to speak up | E |
| When came the wallop with the teacup | E |
| A Cup not filled with Beaune or Clicquot | A |
| But one that brimmed with Orange Pekoe | B |
| Jane Welsh Carlyle said Thomas bold | A |
| The tea you brewed for m' breakfast's cold | A |
| I'm feeling low i' my mind a thing | B |
| You know b' this time Have at you Bing | B |
| And hurled threw he at her the teacup | E |
| And I wrote it deeming it unique up | E |
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| BY OUR OWN OSCAR WILDE | A |
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| LADY LEFFINGWELL coldly A full tea cup What a waste So many good women and so little good tea | A |
| Exit Lady Leffingwell | F |
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| FROM OUR OWN PUNCH | G |
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| A MANCHESTER autograph collector we are informed has just offered for the signature of Tea Carlyle | H |
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| FROM OUR OWN MISSIONARY HERALD | A |
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| From what clouds cannot sunshine be distilled When in a fit of godless rage Mr Carlyle threw a teacup at the good woman he had vowed at the altar to love honour and obey she smiled and the thought of China entered her head | A |
| Yesterday Mrs Carlyle enrolled as a missionary and will sail for the benighted land of the heathen tomorrow | I |
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| FROM OUR OWN NEW YORK SUN | J |
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| Fortunate is MRS JANE WELSH CARLYLE to have escaped with her life though if she had not no American worthy of the traditions of Washington could simulate acute sorrow MR CARLYLE wearied of the dilatory demands of the BAKERIAN War Department properly took the law into his own strong hands | K |
| The argument that resulted in the teacup's leaving MR CARLYLE'S hands was common in most households It transpires that MRS CARLYLE with a Bolshevistic tendency that makes patriots wonder what the Department of Justice to borrow a phrase from a newspaper cartoonist thinks about had begun championing the British Wilson League of Nations that league which will make ironically true our E PLURIBUS UNUM one of many Repeated efforts by MR CARLYLE in appeals to the Department of Justice the Military Intelligence Division and the City Government were of no avail And so MR CARLYLE like the red blooded American he is did what the authorities should have saved him from the embarrasing trouble of doing | B |
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| FROM OUR OWN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR | L |
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| It is reported that Mr Thomas Carlyle has thrown a teacup at Mrs Carlyle and much exaggerated and acrid comment has been made on this incident | A |
| If it had been a whiskey glass or a cocktail glass the results might have been fatal In Oregon which went dry in the number of women hit by crockery has decreased per cent in three years Of women in Oregon hit by crockery in were hit by glasses containing or destined to contain alcoholic stimulants More than per cent of these accidents resulted fatally The remaining women hit by tea or coffee cups are now happy useful members of society | A |
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