Don Juan: Canto The Twelfth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCECFA GHGHGHIJ| LIV | A |
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| But now I will begin my poem 'Tis | B |
| Perhaps a little strange if not quite new | C |
| That from the first of Cantos up to this | D |
| I've not begun what we have to go through | C |
| These first twelve books are merely flourishes | E |
| Preludios trying just a string or two | C |
| Upon my lyre or making the pegs sure | F |
| And when so you shall have the overture LV | A |
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| My Muses do not care a pinch of rosin | G |
| About what's call'd success or not succeeding | H |
| Such thoughts are quite below the strain they have chosen | G |
| 'Tis a great moral lesson they are reading | H |
| I thought at setting off about two dozen | G |
| Cantos would do but at Apollo's pleading | H |
| If that my Pegasus should not be founder'd | I |
| I think to canter gently through a hundred | J |
George Gordon Byron
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