On A Fork Of Byron's Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDDEEE FFF GGG HHI GGG BBB JJJ KK L EEE JJJ AAA DDDDDD| Like any other fork No mark you meet with | A |
| To point some psychological conceit with | A |
| An ordinary fork A fork to eat with | A |
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| No individuality of fashion | B |
| No stamp of frenzy fine or poet passion | B |
| An article in no respect Parnassian | B |
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| No muse with ivy never sere hath decked it | C |
| In fact it would be foolish to expect it | C |
| I question if the muses recollect it | C |
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| A plain straightforward fork yet interesting | D |
| As to the world in general attesting | D |
| That poetizing hinges on digesting | D |
| A fork not standing on its merits merely | E |
| But being Byron's testifying clearly | E |
| That verse and victuals are related nearly | E |
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| Quite genuine crest and all a fork to swear by | F |
| Some poet stories doubtless hanging thereby | F |
| Associations such as gold can ne'er buy | F |
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| For 'twixt the fork and the divine afflatus | G |
| The links are perfect there is no hiatus | G |
| Fork stomach brain pen all one apparatus | G |
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| So when the food that on the fork ascended | H |
| Grew into verse as with the brain it blended | H |
| The fork wrote just as truly as the pen did | I |
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| For though the fork the earlier resource is | G |
| Between the two no violent divorce is | G |
| I hold them to be correlated forces | G |
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| Perchance the unsuspected ministration | B |
| Of this same fork first set in circulation | B |
| The coinage of his rich imagination | B |
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| Perchance this very fork could give the clue to | J |
| What many of the famous thoughts were due to | J |
| That now are part of me and part of you too | J |
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| And if its prongs administered the fuel | K |
| That working duly unto brain renewal | K |
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| Kindled the thoughts that even yet fire you all | L |
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| This very fork unless I quite astray be | E |
| And you of unimpressionable clay be | E |
| A factor in your moral product may be | E |
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| And musing thus does not this fork begin to you | J |
| To seem as consanguineously akin to you | J |
| As if the bard himself had stuck it into you | J |
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| 'Tis ever thus what Genius consecrateth | A |
| The nearest with the most remote collateth | A |
| Till meanest use on highest issue waiteth | A |
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| This salad now in which the fork I'm pressing | D |
| Wherein are all sweet savours coalescing | D |
| What subtle shoot of genius efflorescing | D |
| Flowered in the flavour of so rich a blessing | D |
| Is it that Byron's fork some charm possessing | D |
| Transmutes the stop a bit Who did the dressing | D |
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