With A Volume Of Verse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGG HHIIAA| About the ending of the Ramad n | A |
| When leanest grows the famished Mussulman | A |
| A haggard ne'er do well Mahmoud by name | B |
| At the tenth hour to Caliph OMAR came | B |
| Lord of the Faithful quoth he at the last | C |
| The long moon waneth and men cease to fast | C |
| Hard then O hard the lot of him must be | D |
| Who spares to eat but not for piety | D |
| Hast thou no calling Friend the Caliph said | E |
| Sir I make verses for my daily bread | E |
| Verse answered OMAR 'Tis a dish indeed | F |
| Whereof but scantily a man may feed | F |
| Go Learn the Tenter's or the Potter's Art | G |
| Verse is a drug not sold in any mart | G |
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| I know not if that hungry Mahmoud died | H |
| But this I know he must have versified | H |
| For with his race from better still to worse | I |
| The plague of writing follows like a curse | I |
| And men will scribble though they fail to dine | A |
| Which is the Moral of more Books than mine | A |
Henry Austin Dobson
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