New Chum And Old Monarch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DADA EAEA FGFH IDID AFAF JKJL DMDD JNJ N JOJO PQPR DSDA TATA EAEA FFFF AAAA UFUF UDUD AUAU AAAA AKAK FFFF FAFA AVAV AOAO WFWF| Chieftain enter my verandah | A |
| Sit not in the blinding glare | B |
| Thou shalt have a refuge and a | C |
| Remnant of my household fare | B |
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| Ill becomes thy princely haunches | D |
| Such a seat upon the ground | A |
| Doubtless on a throne of branches | D |
| Thou hast sat banana crowned | A |
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| By the brazen tablet gleaming | E |
| On the darkness of thy breast | A |
| Which unto all outward seeming | E |
| Serves for trousers coat and vest | A |
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| By the words thereon engraven | F |
| Of thy royal rank the gage | G |
| Hail true King in all things save in | F |
| Unessential acreage | H |
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| Such divinity doth hedge thee | I |
| I had guessed thy rank with ease | D |
| Such divinity but edge thee | I |
| Somewhat more to leeward please | D |
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| Though thy lineage I know not | A |
| Thou art to the manner born | F |
| Every inch a king although not | A |
| King of one square barleycorn | F |
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| Enter sire no longer linger | J |
| Cease thy signals grandly dumb | K |
| Point not thus with royal finger | J |
| To thy hungry vacuum | L |
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| Though thy pangs are multifarious | D |
| Soon they all shall pass away | M |
| Come my begging Belisarius | D |
| Belisorious I should say | D |
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| Fear not I am the intruder | J |
| I and white men such as I | N |
| Simpler though thou art and ruder | J |
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| Thou art heir of earth and sky | N |
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| Thine the mountain thine the river | J |
| Thine the endless miles of scrub | O |
| Shall I grudge thee then oh never | J |
| Useless ends of refuse grub | O |
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| Lay aside thy spears I doubt them | P |
| Lay aside thy tomahawk | Q |
| I prefer thee sire without them | P |
| By a somewhat longish chalk | R |
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| Lay aside thy nullah nullahs | D |
| Is there war betwixt us two | S |
| Soon the pipe of peace shall lull us | D |
| Pipe a piece bien entendu | A |
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| Seat thee in this canvas chair here | T |
| Heed not thou the slumbering hound | A |
| Fear not all is on the square here | T |
| Though thou strangely lookest round | A |
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| Or if thou my chair deriding | E |
| Follow thine ancestral bent | A |
| To the naked floor subsiding | E |
| Down the groove of precedent | A |
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| If the boards have more temptation | F |
| Wherefore should I say thee No | F |
| Seeing caudal induration | F |
| Must have set in long ago | F |
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| Take thou now this refuse mince meat | A |
| Pick this bone my regal guest | A |
| Shall a fallen warrior prince meet | A |
| Other welcome than the best | A |
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| Treated like a very rebel | U |
| Chased from town at set of sun | F |
| Wert thou ev'n the debbil debbil | U |
| Thou shouldst eat when I am done | F |
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| On the bare floor sat the sable | U |
| Chieftain of a fallen race | D |
| Two black knees his only table | U |
| Wai a roo his simple grace | D |
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| Stood I by and ruminated | A |
| On the chief's Decline and Fall | U |
| While his highness masticated | A |
| What I gave him bone and all | U |
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| Chief said I when all had vanished | A |
| Fain am I thou shouldst relate | A |
| Why thou roam'st discrowned and banished | A |
| From thy scrub palatinate | A |
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| Stared the chief and wildly muttered | A |
| As if words refused to come | K |
| Want him rum at length he uttered | A |
| Black f'lo plenty like him rum | K |
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| Nay 'Twill make thee mad demoniac | F |
| Set thee all a fire within | F |
| Law forbids thee rum and cognac | F |
| Though in mercy spares thy gin | F |
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| Come thy tale if thou hast any | F |
| Forth the chieftain stretched his hand | A |
| Stood erect and shouted Penny | F |
| In a voice of stern command | A |
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| Out upon thee savage squalid | A |
| Mine ideal thus to crush | V |
| With thy beggary gross and solid | A |
| All for money and for lush | V |
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| Out upon thee prince degenerate | A |
| Get thee to thy native scrub | O |
| Die a dog's death or at any rate | A |
| Trouble me no more for grub | O |
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| At him Ginger Up and at him | W |
| Go it lad On Ginger on | F |
| King indeed the beggar Drat him | W |
| One more fond illusion gone | F |
James Brunton Stephens
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