Lines To A Don Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHHHHIIJJ FFKKLLFFMMNNOOPPFF FQRSSTTUUEEFFFFVVWWA B| Remote and ineffectual Don | A |
| That dared attack my Chesterton | B |
| With that poor weapon half impelled | C |
| Unlearnt unsteady hardly held | C |
| Unworthy for a tilt with men | D |
| Your quavering and corroded pen | D |
| Don poor at Bed and worse at Table | E |
| Don pinched Don starved Don miserable | E |
| Don stuttering Don with roving eyes | F |
| Don nervous Don of crudities | F |
| Don clerical Don ordinary | G |
| Don self absorbed and solitary | G |
| Don here and there Don epileptic | H |
| Don puffed and empty Don dyspeptic | H |
| Don middle class Don sycophantic | H |
| Don dull Don brutish Don pedantic | H |
| Don hypocritical Don bad | I |
| Don furtive Don three quarters mad | I |
| Don since a man must make and end | J |
| Don that shall never be my friend | J |
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| Don different from those regal Dons | F |
| With hearts of gold and lungs of bronze | F |
| Who shout and bang and roar and bawl | K |
| The Absolute across the hall | K |
| Or sail in amply bellying gown | L |
| Enormous through the Sacred Town | L |
| Bearing from College to their homes | F |
| Deep cargoes of gigantic tomes | F |
| Dons admirable Dons of Might | M |
| Uprising on my inward sight | M |
| Compact of ancient tales and port | N |
| And sleep and learning of a sort | N |
| Dons English worthy of the land | O |
| Dons rooted Dons that understand | O |
| Good Dons perpetual that remain | P |
| A landmark walling in the plain | P |
| The horizon of my memories | F |
| Like large and comfortable trees | F |
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| Don very much apart from these | F |
| Thou scapegoat Don thou Don devoted | Q |
| Don to thine own damnation quoted | R |
| Perplexed to find thy trivial name | S |
| Reared in my verse to lasting shame | S |
| Don dreadful rasping Don and wearing | T |
| Repulsive Don Don past all bearing | T |
| Don of the cold and doubtful breath | U |
| Don despicable Don of death | U |
| Don nasty skimpy silent level | E |
| Don evil Don that serves the devil | E |
| Don ugly that makes fifty lines | F |
| There is a Canon which confines | F |
| A Rhymed Octosyllabic Curse | F |
| If written in Iambic Verse | F |
| To fifty lines I never cut | V |
| I far prefer to end it but | V |
| Believe me I shall soon return | W |
| My fires are banked but still they burn | W |
| To write some more about the Don | A |
| That dared attack my Chesterton | B |
Hilaire Belloc
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