Lord Byron's Verses On Sam Rogers.[579] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCC DEEAAAFGGBAHH C AACCIIEEBBEEJJEEBBEK CCBBLLEEEEEECCEEBBCC CCCCEE AABBCCBBAJMN O| QUESTION | A |
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| Nose and Chin that make a knocker hx | B |
| Wrinkles that would puzzle Cocker | C |
| Mouth that marks the envious Scorner | C |
| With a Scorpion in each corner | C |
| Curling up his tail to sting you hy | - |
| In the place that most may wring you | D |
| Eyes of lead like hue and gummy | E |
| Carcase stolen from some mummy | E |
| Bowels but they were forgotten | A |
| Save the Liver and that's rotten | A |
| Skin all sallow flesh all sodden | A |
| Form the Devil would frighten G d in | F |
| Is't a Corpse stuck up for show | G |
| Galvanized at times to go | G |
| With the Scripture has't connection hz | B |
| New proof of the Resurrection | A |
| Vampire Ghost or Goul sic what is it | H |
| I would walk ten miles to miss it | H |
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| ANSWER | C |
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| Many passengers arrest one | A |
| To demand the same free question | A |
| Shorter's my reply and franker | C |
| That's the Bard and Beau and Banker | C |
| Yet if you could bring about | I |
| Just to turn him inside out | I |
| Satan's self would seem less sooty | E |
| And his present aspect Beauty | E |
| Mark that as he masks the bilious | B |
| Air so softly supercilious | B |
| Chastened bow and mock humility | E |
| Almost sickened to Servility | E |
| Hear his tone which is to talking | J |
| That which creeping is to walking | J |
| Now on all fours now on tiptoe | E |
| Hear the tales he lends his lip to | E |
| Little hints of heavy scandals | B |
| Every friend by turns he handles | B |
| All that women or that men do | E |
| Glides forth in an inuendo sic | K |
| Clothed in odds and ends of humour | C |
| Herald of each paltry rumour | C |
| From divorces down to dresses | B |
| Woman's frailties Man's excesses | B |
| All that life presents of evil | L |
| Make for him a constant revel | L |
| You're his foe for that he fears you | E |
| And in absence blasts and sears you | E |
| You're his friend for that he hates you | E |
| First obliges and then baits you | E |
| Darting on the opportunity | E |
| When to do it with impunity | E |
| You are neither then he'll flatter | C |
| Till he finds some trait for satire | C |
| Hunts your weak point out then shows it | E |
| Where it injures to expose it | E |
| In the mode that's most insidious | B |
| Adding every trait that's hideous | B |
| From the bile whose blackening river | C |
| Rushes through his Stygian liver | C |
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| Then he thinks himself a lover | C |
| Why I really can't discover | C |
| In his mind age face or figure | C |
| Viper broth might give him vigour | C |
| Let him keep the cauldron steady | E |
| He the venom has already | E |
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| For his faults he has but one | A |
| 'Tis but Envy when all's done | A |
| He but pays the pain he suffers | B |
| Clipping like a pair of Snuffers | B |
| Light that ought to burn the brighter | C |
| For this temporary blighter | C |
| He's the Cancer of his Species | B |
| And will eat himself to pieces | B |
| Plague personified and Famine | A |
| Devil whose delight is damning | J |
| For his merits don't you know 'em ia | M |
| Once he wrote a pretty Poem | N |
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| First published Fraser's Magazine January vol vii pp | O |
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