To The Mammoth-tortoise Of The Mascarene Islands. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DADA BEBE BABB DEDE BFBF GDGD| Tuque Testudo resonare septem | A |
| Callida nervis | B |
| Hor iii | C |
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| Monster Chelonian you suggest | D |
| To some no doubt the calm | A |
| The torpid ease of islets drest | D |
| In fan like fern and palm | A |
| - | |
| To some your cumbrous ways perchance | B |
| Darwinian dreams recall | E |
| And some your Rip van Winkle glance | B |
| And ancient youth appal | E |
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| So widely varied views dispose | B |
| But not so mine for me | A |
| Your vasty vault but simply shows | B |
| A LYRE immense per se | B |
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| A LYRE to which the Muse might chant | D |
| A truly Orphic tale | E |
| Could she but find that public want | D |
| A Bard of equal scale | E |
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| Oh for a Bard of awful words | B |
| And lungs serenely strong | F |
| To sweep from your sonorous chords | B |
| Niagaras of song | F |
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| Till dinned by that tremendous strain | G |
| The grovelling world aghast | D |
| Should leave its paltry greed of gain | G |
| And mend its ways at last | D |
Henry Austin Dobson
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