The Distressed Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFEF GHGH IJJJ KHKH LMLM NONP| A Suggestion From Hogarth | A |
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| One knows the scene so well a touch | B |
| A word brings back again | C |
| That room not garnished overmuch | B |
| In gusty Drury Lane | D |
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| The empty safe the child that cries | E |
| The kittens on the coat | F |
| The good wife with her patient eyes | E |
| The milkmaid's tuneless throat | F |
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| And last in that mute woe sublime | G |
| The luckless verseman's air | H |
| The Bysshe the foolscap and the rhyme | G |
| The Rhyme that is not there | H |
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| Poor Bard to dream the verse inspired | I |
| With dews Castalian wet | J |
| Is built from cold abstractions squired | J |
| By Bysshe his epithet | J |
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| Ah when she comes the glad eyed Muse | K |
| No step upon the stair | H |
| Betrays the guest that none refuse | K |
| She takes us unaware | H |
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| And tips with fire our lyric lips | L |
| And sets our hearts a flame | M |
| And then like Ariel off she trips | L |
| And none know how she came | M |
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| Only henceforth for right or wrong | N |
| By some dull sense grown keen | O |
| Some blank hour blossomed into song | N |
| We feel that she has been | P |
Henry Austin Dobson
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