Tu Quoque, An Idyll In The Conservatory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC DECFC AGCGC DBCBC ABC DBC AHCHC DICJC ABCBC DHCHC AF DC AF DC AKC K| nellie | A |
| If I were you when ladies at the play Sir | B |
| Beckon and nod a melodrama through | C |
| I would not turn abstractedly away Sir | B |
| If I were you | C |
| - | |
| frank | D |
| If I were you when persons I affected | E |
| Wait for three hours to take me down to Kew | C |
| I would at least pretend I recollected | F |
| If I were you | C |
| - | |
| nellie | A |
| If I were you when ladies are so lavish | G |
| Sir as to keep me every waltz but two | C |
| I would not dance with odious Miss M'Tavish | G |
| If I were you | C |
| - | |
| frank | D |
| If I were you who vow you cannot suffer | B |
| Whiff of the best the mildest honey dew | C |
| I would not dance with smoke consuming Puffer | B |
| If I were you | C |
| - | |
| nellie | A |
| If I were you I would not Sir be bitter | B |
| Even to write the Cynical Review | C |
| - | |
| frank | D |
| No I should doubtless find flirtation fitter | B |
| If I were you | C |
| - | |
| nellie | A |
| Really You would Why Frank you're quite delightful | H |
| Hot as Othello and as black of hue | C |
| Borrow my fan I would not look so frightful | H |
| If I were you | C |
| - | |
| frank | D |
| It is the cause I mean your chaperon is | I |
| Bringing some well curled juvenile Adieu | C |
| I shall retire I'd spare that poor Adonis | J |
| If I were you | C |
| - | |
| nellie | A |
| Go if you will At once And by express Sir | B |
| Where shall it be To China or Peru | C |
| Go I should leave inquirers my address Sir | B |
| If I were you | C |
| - | |
| frank | D |
| No I remain To stay and fight a duel | H |
| Seems on the whole the proper thing to do | C |
| Ah you are strong I would not then be cruel | H |
| If I were you | C |
| - | |
| nellie | A |
| One does not like one's feelings to be doubted | F |
| - | |
| frank | D |
| One does not like one's friends to misconstrue | C |
| - | |
| nellie | A |
| If I confess that I a wee bit pouted | F |
| - | |
| frank | D |
| I should admit that I was pique too | C |
| - | |
| nellie | A |
| Ask me to dance I'd say no more about it | K |
| If I were you | C |
| - | |
| Waltz Exeunt | K |
Henry Austin Dobson
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