On The Disastrous Spread Of ëstheticism In All Classes. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE DDGD HGDG DHIH JHKH LMNM OPOP QROR OD SD HHDH OTUT V HW XHDH YDYD ZYPY ZYHY ZDYD| Impetuously I sprang from bed | A |
| Long before lunch was up | B |
| That I might drain the dizzy dew | C |
| From day's first golden cup | B |
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| In swift devouring ecstacy | D |
| Each toil in turn was done | E |
| I had done lying on the lawn | F |
| Three minutes after one | E |
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| For me as Mr Wordsworth says | D |
| The duties shine like stars | D |
| I formed my uncle's character | G |
| Decreasing his cigars | D |
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| But could my kind engross me No | H |
| Stern Art what sons escape her | G |
| Soon I was drawing Gladstone's nose | D |
| On scraps of blotting paper | G |
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| Then on to play one fingered tunes | D |
| Upon my aunt's piano | H |
| In short I have a headlong soul | I |
| I much resemble Hanno | H |
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| Forgive the entrance of the not | J |
| Too cogent Carthaginian | H |
| It may have been to make a rhyme | K |
| I lean to that opinion | H |
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| Then my great work of book research | L |
| Till dusk I took in hand | M |
| The forming of a final sound | N |
| Opinion on The Strand | M |
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| But when I quenched the midnight oil | O |
| And closed The Referee | P |
| Whose thirty volumes folio | O |
| I take to bed with me | P |
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| I had a rather funny dream | Q |
| Intense that is and mystic | R |
| I dreamed that with one leap and yell | O |
| The world became artistic | R |
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| The Shopmen when their souls were still | O |
| Declined to open shops | D |
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| And Cooks recorded frames of mind | S |
| In sad and subtle chops | D |
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| The stars were weary of routine | H |
| The trees in the plantation | H |
| Were growing every fruit at once | D |
| In search of a sensation | H |
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| The moon went for a moonlight stroll | O |
| And tried to be a bard | T |
| And gazed enraptured at itself | U |
| I left it trying hard | T |
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| The sea had nothing but a mood | V |
| Of 'vague ironic gloom ' | - |
| With which t'explain its presence in | H |
| My upstairs drawing room | W |
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| The sun had read a little book | X |
| That struck him with a notion | H |
| He drowned himself and all his fires | D |
| Deep in the hissing ocean | H |
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| Then all was dark lawless and lost | Y |
| I heard great devilish wings | D |
| I knew that Art had won and snapt | Y |
| The Covenant of Things | D |
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| I cried aloud and I awoke | Z |
| New labours in my head | Y |
| I set my teeth and manfully | P |
| Began to lie in bed | Y |
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| Toiling rejoicing sorrowing | Z |
| So I my life conduct | Y |
| Each morning see some task begun | H |
| Each evening see it chucked | Y |
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| But still in sudden moods of dusk | Z |
| I hear those great weird wings | D |
| Feel vaguely thankful to the vast | Y |
| Stupidity of things | D |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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