How A Beauty Was Waked And Her Suitor Was Suited Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDCEEFGGHHFDHDH DDDIIDJJKLLDDKHDHD MNOHHOPPQRRGGQSSHS HHTHHTCCUDDVWUXDXD DDYHHYZZA2DDB2B2A2HZ HZ HHAlbeit wholly penniless | A |
Prince Charming wasn't any less | B |
Conceited than a Croesus or a modern millionaire | C |
Though often in necessity | D |
No one would ever guess it He | D |
Was candidly insolvent and he frankly didn't care | C |
Of the many debts he made | E |
Not a one was ever paid | E |
But no one ever pressed him to refund the borrowed gold | F |
While he recklessly kept spending | G |
People gladly kept on lending | G |
For the fact they knew a title | H |
Was requital | H |
Twenty fold | F |
He lived in sixteen sixty three | D |
This smooth unblushing article | H |
Since when as far as I can see | D |
Men haven't changed a particle | H |
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In Charming's principality | D |
There was a wild locality | D |
Composed of sombre forest and of steep and frowning crags | D |
Of pheasant and of rabbit too | I |
And here it was his habit to | I |
Go hunting with his courtiers in the keen pursuit of stags | D |
But the charger that he rode | J |
So mercurially strode | J |
That the prince on one occasion left the others in the lurch | K |
And the falling darkness found him | L |
With no vassals left around him | L |
Near a building like an abbey | D |
Or a shabby | D |
Ruined church | K |
His Highness said I'll ring the bell | H |
And stay till morning in it He | D |
Took Hobson's choice for no hotel | H |
There was in the vicinity | D |
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His ringing was so vehement | M |
That any one could see he meant | N |
To suffer no refusal but in spite of all the din | O |
There was no answer audible | H |
And so with courage laudable | H |
His Royal Highness turned the knob and stoutly entered in | O |
Then he strode across the court | P |
But he suddenly stopped short | P |
When he passed within the castle by a massive oaken door | Q |
There were courtiers without number | R |
But they all were plunged in slumber | R |
The prince's ear delighting | G |
By uniting | G |
In a snore | Q |
The prince remarked This must be Philadelphia | S |
Pennsylvania | S |
And so was born the jest that's still | H |
The comic journal's mania | S |
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With torpor reprehensible | H |
Numb comatose insensible | H |
The flunkeys and the chamberlains all slumbered like the dead | T |
And snored so loud and mournfully | H |
That Charming passed them scornfully | H |
And came to where a princess lay asleep upon a bed | T |
She was so extremely fair | C |
That His Highness didn't care | C |
For the risk and so he kissed her ere a single word he spoke | U |
In a jiffy maids and pages | D |
Ushers lackeys squires and sages | D |
As fresh as if they'd been at least | V |
A week awake | W |
Awoke | U |
And hastened bustled dashed and ran | X |
Up stairways and through galleries | D |
In brief they one and all began | X |
Again to earn their salaries | D |
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Aroused from her paralysis | D |
As if in deep analysis | D |
Of him who had awakened her the princess met his eye | Y |
Her glance at first was critical | H |
And sternly analytical | H |
And then she dropped her lashes and she gave a little sigh | Y |
As he watched her wholly dumb | Z |
She observed You doubtless come | Z |
For one of two good reasons and I'm going to ask you which | A2 |
Do you mean my house to harry | D |
Or do you propose to marry | D |
He answered I may rue it | B2 |
But I'll do it | B2 |
If you're rich | A2 |
The princess murmured with a smile | H |
I've millions at the least to come | Z |
The prince cried Please excuse me while | H |
I go and get the priest to come | Z |
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The Moral When affairs go ill | H |
The sleeping partner foots the bill | H |
Guy Wetmore Carryl
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