Variations Of An Air Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCAB D BEFGBHIJKLMBJNB O BPDP BQPQ RSBS BBDB D TTUTBBVBLLWOXYBTBZ| Old King Cole | A |
| Was a merry old soul | A |
| And a merry old soul was he | B |
| He called for his pipe | C |
| and he called for his bowl | A |
| and he called for his fiddlers three | B |
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| after Lord Tennyson | D |
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| Cole that unwearied prince of Colchester | B |
| Growing more gay with age and with long days | E |
| Deeper in laughter and desire of life | F |
| As that Virginian climber on our walls | G |
| Flames scarlet with the fading of the year | B |
| Called for his wassail and that other weed | H |
| Virginian also from the western woods | I |
| Where English Raleigh checked the boast of Spain | J |
| And lighting joy with joy and piling up | K |
| Pleasure as crown for pleasure bade me bring | L |
| Those three the minstrels whose emblazoned coats | M |
| Shone with the oyster shells of Colchester | B |
| And these three played and playing grew more fain | J |
| Of mirth and music till the heathen came | N |
| And the King slept beside the northern sea | B |
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| after W B Yeats | O |
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| Of an old King in a story | B |
| From the grey sea folk I have heard | P |
| Whose heart was no more broken | D |
| Than the wings of a bird | P |
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| As soon as the moon was silver | B |
| And the thin stars began | Q |
| He took his pipe and his tankard | P |
| Like an old peasant man | Q |
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| And three tall shadows were with him | R |
| And came at his command | S |
| And played before him for ever | B |
| The fiddles of fairyland | S |
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| And he died in the young summer | B |
| Of the world's desire | B |
| Before our hearts were broken | D |
| Like sticks in a fire | B |
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| after Walt Whitman | D |
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| Me clairvoyant | T |
| Me conscious of you old camarado | T |
| Needing no telescope lorgnette field glass opera glass myopic pince nez | U |
| Me piercing two thousand years with eye naked and not ashamed | T |
| The crown cannot hide you from me | B |
| Musty old feudal heraldic trappings cannot hide you from me | B |
| I perceive that you drink | V |
| I am drinking with you I am as drunk as you are | B |
| I see you are inhaling tobacco puffing smoking spitting | L |
| I do not object to your spitting | L |
| You prophetic of American largeness | W |
| You anticipating the broad masculine manners of these States | O |
| I see in you also there are movements tremors tears desire for the melodious | X |
| I salute your three violinists endlessly making vibrations | Y |
| Rigid relentless capable of going on for ever | B |
| They play my accompaniment but I shall take no notice of any accompaniment | T |
| I myself am a complete orchestra | B |
| So long | Z |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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