To A Vers Librist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGGG GGHI JJKK AACC| Oh bard I said your verse is free | A |
| The shackles that encumber me | A |
| The fetters that are my obsession | B |
| Are never gyves to your expression | B |
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| The fear of falsities in rhyme | C |
| In metre quantity or time | C |
| Is never yours you sing along | D |
| Your unpremeditated song | D |
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| Correct the young vers librist said | E |
| Whatever pops into my head | E |
| I write and have but one small fetter | F |
| I start each line with a capital letter | F |
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| But rhyme and metre Ishkebibble | G |
| Are actually negligible | G |
| I go ahead like all my school | G |
| Without a single silly rule | G |
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| Of rhyme I am so reverential | G |
| He made me feel quite inconsequential | G |
| I shed some strongly saline tears | H |
| For bards I loved in younger years | I |
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| If Keats had fallen for your fluff | J |
| I said he might have done good stuff | J |
| If Burns had thrown his rhymes away | K |
| His songs might still be sung to day | K |
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| O bards of rhyme and metre free | A |
| My gratitude goes out to ye | A |
| For all your deathless lines ahem | C |
| Let's see now What is one of them | C |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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