Pepys' "diary" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DCDC EFGF HCHC IFJF JKJK| To One who asked why he wrote it | A |
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| You ask me what was his intent | B |
| In truth I'm not a German | C |
| 'Tis plain though that he neither meant | B |
| A Lecture nor a Sermon | C |
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| But there it is the thing's a Fact | D |
| I find no other reason | C |
| But that some scribbling itch attacked | D |
| Him in and out of season | C |
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| To write what no one else should read | E |
| With this for second meaning | F |
| To cleanse his bosom and indeed | G |
| It sometimes wanted cleaning | F |
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| To speak as 'twere his private mind | H |
| Unhindered by repression | C |
| To make his motley life a kind | H |
| Of Midas' ears confession | C |
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| And thus outgrew this work per se | I |
| This queer kaleidoscopic | F |
| Delightful blabbing vivid free | J |
| Hotch pot of daily topic | F |
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| So artless in its vanity | J |
| So fleeting so eternal | K |
| So packed with poor Humanity | J |
| We know as Pepys' his journal | K |
Henry Austin Dobson
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