Blue-blood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG| We thought at first this man is a king for sure | A |
| Or the branch of a mighty and ancient and famous lineage | B |
| That silly sulky illiterate black avised boor | A |
| Who was hatched by foreign vulgarity under a hedge | C |
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| The good men of Clare were drinking his health in a flood | D |
| And gazing with me in awe at the princely lad | E |
| And asking each other from what bluest blueness of blood | D |
| His daddy was squeezed and the pa and the da of his dad | E |
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| We waited there gaping and wondering anxiously | F |
| Until he'd stop eating and let the glad tidings out | G |
| And the slack jawed booby proved to the hilt that he | F |
| Was lout son of lout by old lout and was da to a lout | G |
James Stephens
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