The Friend Of Humanity And The Rhymer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB A CCDD E EFFGE HHB HH AAIIJKLMNNO BBB B| Emam tua carmina sanus MARTIAL | A |
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| F OF H I want a verse It gives you little pains | B |
| You just sit down and draw upon your brains | B |
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| Come now be amiable | A |
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| R To hear you talk | C |
| You'd make it easier to fly than walk | C |
| You seem to think that rhyming is a thing | D |
| You can produce if you but touch a spring | D |
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| That fancy fervour passion and what not | E |
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| Are just a case of penny in the slot | E |
| You should reflect that no evasive bird | F |
| Is half so shy as is your fittest word | F |
| And even similes however wrought | G |
| Like hares before you cook them must be caught | E |
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| Impromptus too require elaboration | H |
| And unlike eggs grow fresh by incubation | H |
| Then as to epigrams | B |
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| F of H Nay nay I've done | H |
| I did but make petition You make fun | H |
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| R Stay I am grave Forgive me if I ramble | A |
| But then a negative needs some preamble | A |
| To break the blow I feel with you in truth | I |
| These complex miseries of Age and Youth | I |
| I feel with you and none can feel it more | J |
| Than I this burning Problem of the Poor | K |
| The Want that grinds the Mystery of Pain | L |
| The Hearts that sink and never rise again | M |
| How shall I set this to some careless screed | N |
| Or jigging stave when Help is what you need | N |
| Help Help more Help | O |
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| F of H I fancied that with ease | B |
| You'd scribble off some verses that might please | B |
| And so give help to us | B |
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| R Why then TAKE THESE | B |
Henry Austin Dobson
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