The Journalists And Minos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GGGG DHDH GIGI JBJ GKGK LMLM NONO PGPG QDQG RSRS G G TUUU JVJV BGBG GWG XGXG JYJY ZA2ZA2 B2UB2U| I chanced the other eve | A |
| But how I ne'er will tell | B |
| The paper to receive | A |
| That's published down in hell | B |
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| In general one may guess | C |
| I little care to see | D |
| This free corps of the press | C |
| Got up so easily | D |
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| But suddenly my eyes | E |
| A side note chanced to meet | F |
| And fancy my surprise | E |
| At reading in the sheet | F |
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| For twenty weary springs | G |
| The post from Erebus | G |
| Remark me always brings | G |
| Unpleasant news to us | G |
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| Through want of water we | D |
| Have well nigh lost our breath | H |
| In great perplexity | D |
| Hell came and asked for Death | H |
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| 'They can wade through the Styx | G |
| Catch crabs in Lethe's flood | I |
| Old Charon's in a fix | G |
| His boat lies in the mud | I |
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| 'The dead leap over there | J |
| The young and old as well | B |
| The boatman gets no fare | J |
| And loudly curses hell ' | - |
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| King Minos bade his spies | G |
| In all directions go | K |
| The devils needs must rise | G |
| And bring him news below | K |
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| Hurrah The secret's told | L |
| They've caught the robber's nest | M |
| A merry feast let's hold | L |
| Come hell and join the rest | M |
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| An author's countless band | N |
| Stalked round Cocytus' brink | O |
| Each bearing in his hand | N |
| A glass for holding ink | O |
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| And into casks they drew | P |
| The water strange to say | G |
| As boys suck sweet wine through | P |
| An elder reed in play | G |
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| Quick o'er them cast the net | Q |
| Ere they have time to flee | D |
| Warm welcome ye will get | Q |
| So come to Sans souci | G |
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| Smelt by the king ere long | R |
| He sharpened up his tooth | S |
| And thus addressed the throng | R |
| Full angrily in truth | S |
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| 'The robbers is't we see | G |
| What trade What land perchance ' | - |
| 'German news writers we ' | - |
| Enough to make us dance | G |
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| 'A wish I long have known | T |
| To bid ye stop and dine | U |
| Ere ye by Death were mown | U |
| That brother in law of mine | U |
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| 'Yet now by Styx I swear | J |
| Whose flood ye would imbibe | V |
| That torments and despair | J |
| Shall fill your vermin tribe | V |
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| 'The pitcher seeks the well | B |
| Till broken 'tis one day | G |
| They who for ink would smell | B |
| The penalty must pay | G |
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| 'So seize them by their thumbs | G |
| And loosen straight my beast | W |
| E'en now he licks his gums | G |
| Impatient for the feast ' | - |
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| How quivered every limb | X |
| Beneath the bull dog's jaws | G |
| Their honors baited him | X |
| And he allowed no pause | G |
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| Convulsively they swear | J |
| Still writhe the rabble rout | Y |
| Engaged with anxious care | J |
| In pumping Lethe out | Y |
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| Ye Christians good and meek | Z |
| This vision bear in mind | A2 |
| If journalists ye seek | Z |
| Attempt their thumbs to find | A2 |
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| Defects they often hide | B2 |
| As folks whose hairs are gone | U |
| We see with wigs supplied | B2 |
| Probatum I have done | U |
Friedrich Schiller
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