Lord Lundy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDEEFFGGEEHH IFHHHHJAKKHHLLMM NNHHOOII| Who was too Freely Moved to Tears and thereby ruined his Political Career | A |
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| Lord Lundy from his earliest years | B |
| Was far too freely moved to Tears | C |
| For instance if his Mother said | D |
| Lundy It's time to go to Bed | D |
| He bellowed like a Little Turk | E |
| Or if his father Lord Dunquerque | E |
| Said Hi in a Commanding Tone | F |
| Hi Lundy Leave the Cat alone | F |
| Lord Lundy letting go its tail | G |
| Would raise so terrible a wail | G |
| As moved His Grandpapa the Duke | E |
| To utter the severe rebuke | E |
| When I Sir was a little Boy | H |
| An Animal was not a Toy | H |
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| His father's Elder Sister who | I |
| Was married to a Parvenoo | F |
| Confided to Her Husband Drat | H |
| The Miserable Peevish Brat | H |
| Why don't they drown the Little Beast | H |
| Suggestions which to say the least | H |
| Are not what we expect to hear | J |
| From Daughters of an English Peer | A |
| His Grandmamma His Mother's Mother | K |
| Who had some dignity or other | K |
| The Garter or no matter what | H |
| I can't remember all the Lot | H |
| Said Oh That I were Brisk and Spry | L |
| To give him that for which to cry | L |
| An empty wish alas For she | M |
| Was Blind and nearly ninety three | M |
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| The Dear Old Butler thought but there | N |
| I really neither know nor care | N |
| For what the Dear Old Butler thought | H |
| In my opinion Butlers ought | H |
| To know their place and not to play | O |
| The Old Retainer night and day | O |
| I'm getting tired and so are you | I |
| Let's cut the poem into two | I |
Hilaire Belloc
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