How Thomas A Maid From A Dragon Released Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Though Philip the SecondA
Of France was reckonedA
No coward his breath came shortB
When they told him a dragonC
As big as a wagonC
Was waiting below in the courtB
A dragon so long and so wide and so fatD
That he couldn't get in at the door to chatD
The king couldn't leave himE
Outside and grieve himE
He had to receive himE
Upon the matD
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The dragon bowed nicelyF
And very conciselyF
He stated the reason he'd calledG
He made the disclosureH
With frigid composureH
King Philip was simply appalledG
He demanded for eating a fortnight apartI
The monarch's ten daughters all dear to his heartI
And now you'll produce heF
Concluded the juicyF
And succulent LucieF
By way of startI
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King Philip was pliantJ
And far from defiantJ
And servile no doubt you retortB
But if you struck a snag onK
A bottle green dragonC
Who filled up two thirds of your courtB
And curled up his tail on your new tin roofL
And made your piazza groan under his hoofL
Would you threaten and thunderH
Or just knuckle underH
Completely I wonderH
If put to proofL
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By way of a truce heF
Brought out little LucieF
And watched her conducted awayM
But all of the othersN
Were out with their brothersN
Thus gaining a little delayM
He promised through heralds sent west and eastO
His crown and his kingdom and last not leastO
His daughter so sightlyM
To any one knightlyM
Who'd come and politelyM
Wipe out that beastO
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For love of the charmerH
Arrayed in his armorH
Each suitor for glory who yearnedP
Would gallantly hastenC
The dragon to chastenC
But none of them ever returnedP
When the dragon had eaten some sixteen scoreQ
He hung up this sign on his cavern doorQ
Whereat he lay pronelyM
In majesty lonelyM
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There's Standing Room OnlyM
For Three Knights MoreQ
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A slim adolescentJ
His beard only crescentJ
Rode up at this stage of the gameR
To where the old sinnerH
Lay gorged with his dinnerH
And breathing out torrents of flameR
He gathered a tip from the flaunting signS
And took his position the fourth in lineS
Until as forebodedJ
By food incommodedJ
The dragon explodedJ
At half past nineS
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The king was delightedJ
At first when he sightedJ
The victor but then in dismayM
Regretted his promiseT
The stripling was ThomasT
His Majesty's valet de piedJ
He asked him at once Will you compromiseU
But Thomas looked straight in his master's eyesU
And answered severelyM
I see your game clearlyM
And scorn it sincerelyM
Hand out the prizeU
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Not long did he lingerH
Before on the fingerH
Of Lucie he fitted a ringV
A month or two laterH
They made him dictatorH
In place of the elderly kingV
He was lauded by pulpit and boomed by pressW
And no one had ever a chance to guessW
Beholding this heroX
Who ruled like a NeroX
His valor was zeroX
Or something lessW
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The Moral And still from Nice to CalaisM
Discretion's the better part ofY
valetsM

Guy Wetmore Carryl



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