In The Royal Academy. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB B CCD E DF B EE E GGHH B IIJJKKLLMMNN E OO B KKA B K B PQ E PR B R E IISSTU B TVV E KKKKKK B LLO E LLWW W XX E YYWWUUKK W KKIZA2A2W B2 KK W K U C2C2WWHUGH on furlough | A |
HELEN his cousin | B |
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HELEN | B |
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They have not come And ten is past | C |
Unless by chance my watch is fast | C |
Aunt Mabel surely told us ten | D |
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HUGH | E |
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I doubt if she can do it then | D |
In fact their train | F |
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HELEN | B |
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That is you knew | E |
How could you be so treacherous Hugh | E |
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HUGH | E |
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Nay it is scarcely mine the crime | G |
One can't account for railway time | G |
Where shall we sit Not here I vote | H |
At least there's nothing here of note | H |
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HELEN | B |
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Then here we'll stay please Once for all | I |
I bar all artists great and small | I |
From now until we go in June | J |
I shall hear nothing but this tune | J |
Whether I like Long's Vashti or | K |
Like Leslie's Naughty Kitty more | K |
With all that critics right or wrong | L |
Have said of Leslie and of Long | L |
No If you value my esteem | M |
I beg you'll take another theme | M |
Paint me some pictures if you will | N |
But spare me these for good and ill | N |
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HUGH | E |
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Paint you some pictures Come that's kind | O |
You know I'm nearly colour blind | O |
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HELEN | B |
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Paint then in words You did before | K |
Scenes at where was it Dustypoor | K |
You know | A |
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HUGH with an inspiration | B |
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I'll try | K |
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HELEN | B |
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But mind they're pretty | P |
Not hog hunts | Q |
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HUGH | E |
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You shall be Committee | P |
And say if they are out or in | R |
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HELEN | B |
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I shall reject them all Begin | R |
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HUGH | E |
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Here is the first An antique Hall | I |
Like Chanticlere with panelled wall | I |
A boy or rather lad A girl | S |
Laughing with all her rows of pearl | S |
Before a portrait in a ruff | T |
He meanwhile watches | U |
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HELEN | B |
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That's enough | T |
It wants verve brio breadth design | V |
Besides it's English I decline | V |
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HUGH | E |
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This is the next 'Tis finer far | K |
A foaming torrent say Braemar | K |
A pony grazing by a boulder | K |
Then the same pair a little older | K |
Left by some lucky chance together | K |
He begs her for a sprig of heather | K |
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HELEN | B |
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Which she accords with smile seraphic | L |
I know it it was in the Graphic | L |
Declined | O |
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HUGH | E |
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Once more and I forego | L |
All hopes of hanging high or low | L |
Behold the hero of the scene | W |
In bungalow and palankeen | W |
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HELEN | W |
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What all at once But that's absurd | X |
Unless he's Sir Boyle Roche's bird | X |
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HUGH | E |
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Permit me 'Tis a Panorama | Y |
In which the person of the drama | Y |
Mid orientals dusk and tawny | W |
Mid warriors drinking brandy pawnee | W |
Mid scorpions dowagers and griffins | U |
In morning rides at noon day tiffins | U |
In every kind of place and weather | K |
Is solaced by a sprig of heather | K |
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More seriously | W |
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He puts that faded scrap before | K |
The Rajah or the Koh i noor | K |
He would not barter it for all | I |
Benares or the Taj Mahal | Z |
It guides directs his every act | A2 |
And word and thought In short in fact | A2 |
I mean | W |
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Opening his locket | B2 |
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Look Helen that's the heather | K |
Too late Here come both Aunts together | K |
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HELEN | W |
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What heather Sir | K |
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After a pause | U |
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And why too late | C2 |
Aunt Dora how you've made us wait | C2 |
Don't you agree that it's a pity | W |
Portraits are hung by the Committee | W |
Henry Austin Dobson
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