The Happy Printer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FEFE GHGH IAIA JKJK LDLD MDMD| Hoc est vivere MARTIAL | A |
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| The Printer's is a happy lot | B |
| Alone of all professions | C |
| No fateful smudges ever blot | B |
| His earliest impressions | C |
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| The outgrowth of his youthful ken | D |
| No cold obstruction fetters | E |
| He quickly learns the types of men | D |
| And all the world of letters | E |
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| With forms he scorns to compromise | F |
| For him no rule has terrors | E |
| The slips he makes he can revise | F |
| They are but printers' errors | E |
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| From doubtful questions of the Press | G |
| He wisely holds aloof | H |
| In all polemics more or less | G |
| His argument is proof | H |
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| Save in their case with High and Low | I |
| Small need has he to grapple | A |
| Without dissent he still can go | I |
| To his accustomed Chapel | A |
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| From ills that others scape or shirk | J |
| He rarely fails to rally | K |
| For him his most composing work | J |
| Is labour of the galley | K |
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| Though ways be foul and days are dim | L |
| He makes no lamentation | D |
| The primal fount of woe to him | L |
| Is want of occupation | D |
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| And when at last Time finds him grey | M |
| With over close attention | D |
| He solves the problem of the day | M |
| And gets an Old Age pension | D |
Henry Austin Dobson
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