My Books. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH AJJJ KAJA LKKK| They dwell in the odour of camphor | A |
| They stand in a Sheraton shrine | B |
| They are warranted early editions | C |
| These worshipful tomes of mine | B |
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| In their creamiest Oxford vellum | D |
| In their redolent crushed Levant | E |
| With their delicate watered linings | F |
| They are jewels of price I grant | E |
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| Blind tooled and morocco jointed | G |
| They have Zaehnsdorf's daintiest dress | H |
| They are graceful attenuate polished | I |
| But they gather the dust no less | H |
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| For the row that I prize is yonder | A |
| Away on the unglazed shelves | J |
| The bulged and the bruised octavos | J |
| The dear and the dumpy twelves | J |
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| Montaigne with his sheepskin blistered | K |
| And Howell the worse for wear | A |
| And the worm drilled Jesuits' Horace | J |
| And the little old cropped Moli re | A |
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| And the Burton I bought for a florin | L |
| And the Rabelais foxed and flea'd | K |
| For the others I never have opened | K |
| But those are the books I read | K |
Henry Austin Dobson
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