Variations Of An Air Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCAB D BEFGBHIJKLMBJNB O BPDP BQPQ RSBS BBDB D TTUTBBVBLLWOXYBTBZOld King Cole | A |
Was a merry old soul | A |
And a merry old soul was he | B |
He called for his pipe | C |
and he called for his bowl | A |
and he called for his fiddlers three | B |
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after Lord Tennyson | D |
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Cole that unwearied prince of Colchester | B |
Growing more gay with age and with long days | E |
Deeper in laughter and desire of life | F |
As that Virginian climber on our walls | G |
Flames scarlet with the fading of the year | B |
Called for his wassail and that other weed | H |
Virginian also from the western woods | I |
Where English Raleigh checked the boast of Spain | J |
And lighting joy with joy and piling up | K |
Pleasure as crown for pleasure bade me bring | L |
Those three the minstrels whose emblazoned coats | M |
Shone with the oyster shells of Colchester | B |
And these three played and playing grew more fain | J |
Of mirth and music till the heathen came | N |
And the King slept beside the northern sea | B |
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after W B Yeats | O |
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Of an old King in a story | B |
From the grey sea folk I have heard | P |
Whose heart was no more broken | D |
Than the wings of a bird | P |
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As soon as the moon was silver | B |
And the thin stars began | Q |
He took his pipe and his tankard | P |
Like an old peasant man | Q |
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And three tall shadows were with him | R |
And came at his command | S |
And played before him for ever | B |
The fiddles of fairyland | S |
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And he died in the young summer | B |
Of the world's desire | B |
Before our hearts were broken | D |
Like sticks in a fire | B |
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after Walt Whitman | D |
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Me clairvoyant | T |
Me conscious of you old camarado | T |
Needing no telescope lorgnette field glass opera glass myopic pince nez | U |
Me piercing two thousand years with eye naked and not ashamed | T |
The crown cannot hide you from me | B |
Musty old feudal heraldic trappings cannot hide you from me | B |
I perceive that you drink | V |
I am drinking with you I am as drunk as you are | B |
I see you are inhaling tobacco puffing smoking spitting | L |
I do not object to your spitting | L |
You prophetic of American largeness | W |
You anticipating the broad masculine manners of these States | O |
I see in you also there are movements tremors tears desire for the melodious | X |
I salute your three violinists endlessly making vibrations | Y |
Rigid relentless capable of going on for ever | B |
They play my accompaniment but I shall take no notice of any accompaniment | T |
I myself am a complete orchestra | B |
So long | Z |
G. K. Chesterton
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