A Chapter Of Froissart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DADA EFGF HAHA IJIJ AAAA DJDJ IAIA FKFK FAFA LMLM FFFF NANA FAFA OPOQ| Grandpapa Loquitur | A |
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| You don't know Froissart now young folks | B |
| This age I think prefers recitals | C |
| Of high spiced crime with slang for jokes | B |
| And startling titles | C |
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| But in my time when still some few | D |
| Loved old Montaigne and praised Pope's Homer | A |
| Nay thought to style him poet too | D |
| Were scarce misnomer | A |
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| Sir John was less ignored Indeed | E |
| I can re call how Some one present | F |
| Who spoils her grandson Frank would read | G |
| And find him pleasant | F |
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| For by this copy hangs a Tale | H |
| Long since in an old house in Surrey | A |
| Where men knew more of morning ale | H |
| Than Lindley Murray | A |
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| In a dim lighted whip hung hall | I |
| 'Neath Hogarth's Midnight Conversation | J |
| It stood and oft 'twixt spring and fall | I |
| With fond elation | J |
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| I turned the brown old leaves For there | A |
| All through one hopeful happy summer | A |
| At such a page I well knew where | A |
| Some secret comer | A |
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| Whom I can picture 'Trix like you | D |
| Though scarcely such a colt unbroken | J |
| Would sometimes place for private view | D |
| A certain token | J |
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| A rose leaf meaning Garden Wall | I |
| An ivy leaf for Orchard corner | A |
| A thorn to say Don't come at all | I |
| Unwelcome warner | A |
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| Not that in truth our friends gainsaid | F |
| But then Romance required dissembling | K |
| Ann Radcliffe taught us that which bred | F |
| Some genuine trembling | K |
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| Though as a rule all used to end | F |
| In such kind confidential parley | A |
| As may to you kind Fortune send | F |
| You long legged Charlie | A |
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| When your time comes How years slip on | L |
| We had our crosses like our betters | M |
| Fate sometimes looked askance upon | L |
| Those floral letters | M |
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| And once for three long days disdained | F |
| The dust upon the folio settled | F |
| For some one in the right was pained | F |
| And some one nettled | F |
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| That sure was in the wrong but spake | N |
| Of fixed intent and purpose stony | A |
| To serve King George enlist and make | N |
| Minced meat of Boney | A |
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| Who yet survived ten years at least | F |
| And so when she I mean came hither | A |
| One day that need for letters ceased | F |
| She brought this with her | A |
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| Here is the leaf stained Chapter How | O |
| The English King laid Siege to Calais | P |
| I think Gran knows it even now | O |
| Go ask her Alice | Q |
Henry Austin Dobson
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