The Shakespeare Memorial Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBBBCCDDEE FGHHIIDDJJKKBBBBLL MM| Lord Lilac thought it rather rotten | A |
| That Shakespeare should be quite forgotten | A |
| And therefore got on a Committee | B |
| With several chaps out of the City | B |
| And Shorter and Sir Herbert Tree | B |
| Lord Rothschild and Lord Rosebery | B |
| And F C G and Comyn Carr | B |
| Two dukes and a dramatic star | B |
| Also a clergy man now dead | C |
| And while the vain world careless sped | C |
| Unheeding the heroic name | D |
| The souls most fed with Shakespeare's flame | D |
| Still sat unconquered in a ring | E |
| Remembering him like anything | E |
| - | |
| Lord Lilac did not long remain | F |
| Lord Lilac did not some again | G |
| He softly lit a cigarette | H |
| And sought some other social set | H |
| Where in some other knots or rings | I |
| People were doing cultured things | I |
| Miss Zwilt's Humane Vivarium | D |
| The little men that paint on gum | D |
| The exquisite Gorilla Girl | J |
| He sometimes in this giddy whirl | J |
| Not being really bad at heart | K |
| Remembered Shakespeare with a start | K |
| But not with that grand constancy | B |
| Of Clement Shorter Herbert Tree | B |
| Lord Rosebery and Comyn Carr | B |
| And all the other names there are | B |
| Who stuck like limpets to the spot | L |
| Lest they forgot lest they forgot | L |
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| Lord Lilac was of slighter stuff | M |
| Lord Lilac had had quite enough | M |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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