Epistle To Mr. Murray Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DEBEDB FFGHHG IIBB B HHJKKJ BLCCL A| My dear Mr Murray | A |
| You're in a damn 'd hurry | A |
| To set up this ultimate Canto | B |
| But if they don't rob us | C |
| You'll see Mr Hobhouse | C |
| Will bring it safe in his portmanteau | B |
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| For the Journal you hint of | D |
| As ready to print off | E |
| No doubt you do right to commend it | B |
| But as yet I have writ off | E |
| The devil a bit of | D |
| Our 'Beppo ' when copied I'll send it | B |
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| Then you've Sotheby's Tour | F |
| No great things to be sure | F |
| You could hardly begin with a less work | G |
| For the pompous rascallion | H |
| Who don't speak Italian | H |
| Nor French must have scribbled by guess work | G |
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| You can make any loss up | I |
| With 'Spence' and his gossip | I |
| A work which must surely succeed | B |
| Then Queen Mary's Epistle craft | B |
| With the new 'Fytte' of 'Whistlecraft ' | - |
| Must make people purchase and read | B |
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| Then you've General Gordon | H |
| Who girded his sword on | H |
| To serve with a Muscovite master | J |
| And help him to polish | K |
| A nation so owlish | K |
| They thought shaving their beards a disaster | J |
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| For the man 'poor and shrewd ' | - |
| With whom you'd conclude | B |
| A compact without more delay | L |
| Perhaps some such pen is | C |
| Still extant in Venice | C |
| But please sir to mention your pay | L |
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| Venice January | A |
George Gordon Byron
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