How A Beauty Was Waked And Her Suitor Was Suited Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Albeit wholly pennilessA
Prince Charming wasn't any lessB
Conceited than a Croesus or a modern millionaireC
Though often in necessityD
No one would ever guess it HeD
Was candidly insolvent and he frankly didn't careC
Of the many debts he madeE
Not a one was ever paidE
But no one ever pressed him to refund the borrowed goldF
While he recklessly kept spendingG
People gladly kept on lendingG
For the fact they knew a titleH
Was requitalH
Twenty foldF
He lived in sixteen sixty threeD
This smooth unblushing articleH
Since when as far as I can seeD
Men haven't changed a particleH
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In Charming's principalityD
There was a wild localityD
Composed of sombre forest and of steep and frowning cragsD
Of pheasant and of rabbit tooI
And here it was his habit toI
Go hunting with his courtiers in the keen pursuit of stagsD
But the charger that he rodeJ
So mercurially strodeJ
That the prince on one occasion left the others in the lurchK
And the falling darkness found himL
With no vassals left around himL
Near a building like an abbeyD
Or a shabbyD
Ruined churchK
His Highness said I'll ring the bellH
And stay till morning in it HeD
Took Hobson's choice for no hotelH
There was in the vicinityD
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His ringing was so vehementM
That any one could see he meantN
To suffer no refusal but in spite of all the dinO
There was no answer audibleH
And so with courage laudableH
His Royal Highness turned the knob and stoutly entered inO
Then he strode across the courtP
But he suddenly stopped shortP
When he passed within the castle by a massive oaken doorQ
There were courtiers without numberR
But they all were plunged in slumberR
The prince's ear delightingG
By unitingG
In a snoreQ
The prince remarked This must be PhiladelphiaS
PennsylvaniaS
And so was born the jest that's stillH
The comic journal's maniaS
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With torpor reprehensibleH
Numb comatose insensibleH
The flunkeys and the chamberlains all slumbered like the deadT
And snored so loud and mournfullyH
That Charming passed them scornfullyH
And came to where a princess lay asleep upon a bedT
She was so extremely fairC
That His Highness didn't careC
For the risk and so he kissed her ere a single word he spokeU
In a jiffy maids and pagesD
Ushers lackeys squires and sagesD
As fresh as if they'd been at leastV
A week awakeW
AwokeU
And hastened bustled dashed and ranX
Up stairways and through galleriesD
In brief they one and all beganX
Again to earn their salariesD
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Aroused from her paralysisD
As if in deep analysisD
Of him who had awakened her the princess met his eyeY
Her glance at first was criticalH
And sternly analyticalH
And then she dropped her lashes and she gave a little sighY
As he watched her wholly dumbZ
She observed You doubtless comeZ
For one of two good reasons and I'm going to ask you whichA2
Do you mean my house to harryD
Or do you propose to marryD
He answered I may rue itB2
But I'll do itB2
If you're richA2
The princess murmured with a smileH
I've millions at the least to comeZ
The prince cried Please excuse me whileH
I go and get the priest to comeZ
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The Moral When affairs go illH
The sleeping partner foots the billH

Guy Wetmore Carryl



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