A Little Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON PQRQ STUT EVEV WXYX| A happy vicar I might have been | A |
| Two hundred years ago | B |
| To preach upon eternal doom | C |
| And watch my walnuts grow | B |
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| But born alas in an evil time | D |
| I missed that pleasant haven | E |
| For the hair has grown on my upper lip | F |
| And the clergy are all clean shaven | E |
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| And later still the times were good | G |
| We were so easy to please | H |
| We rocked our troubled thoughts to sleep | I |
| On the bosoms of the trees | H |
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| All ignorant we dared to own | J |
| The joys we now dissemble | K |
| The greenfinch on the apple bough | L |
| Could make my enemies tremble | K |
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| But girl's bellies and apricots | M |
| Roach in a shaded stream | N |
| Horses ducks in flight at dawn | O |
| All these are a dream | N |
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| It is forbidden to dream again | P |
| We maim our joys or hide them | Q |
| Horses are made of chromium steel | R |
| And little fat men shall ride them | Q |
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| I am the worm who never turned | S |
| The eunuch without a harem | T |
| Between the priest and the commissar | U |
| I walk like Eugene Aram | T |
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| And the commissar is telling my fortune | E |
| While the radio plays | V |
| But the priest has promised an Austin Seven | E |
| For Duggie always pays | V |
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| I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls | W |
| And woke to find it true | X |
| I wasn't born for an age like this | Y |
| Was Smith Was Jones Were you | X |
George Orwell (eric Arthur Blair)
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