Mr. Maccall At Cleveland Hall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCD EF EF GE GE DG HG IJ IJ GK GK IL IL GA GA E E G MJ ME NJ IJ J JG JG G E E G NJJJEJ IJIJ| Mr MacCall at Cleveland Hall | A |
| Sunday evening date to fix | B |
| Fifteenth April sixty six | B |
| Speech reported and redacted | C |
| By a fellow much distracted | D |
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| Who lectures No mere scorner | E |
| Clear brained his heart is warm | F |
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| She sits at the nearest comer | E |
| Of I will not say what form | F |
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| II | - |
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| The Conflict of Opinions | G |
| In the Present Day saith Chair | E |
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| What muff in the British dominions | G |
| Could dispute that she is fair | E |
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| Mammon worship is horrid | D |
| Plutocracy is base | G |
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| Dark hair from a fine small forehead | H |
| I catch but the still side face | G |
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| We wallow in mere dimension | I |
| The Big to us is Great | J |
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| If she stood at her utmost tension | I |
| She might pass four feet eight | J |
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| We lay on colour in splashes | G |
| With a mop or a broom for brush | K |
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| How dark are her long eyelashes | G |
| How pure is her cheek's slight flush | K |
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| But we have no perception | I |
| For form the divinest now | L |
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| Each curve there is perfection | I |
| In nostril chin and brow | L |
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| Our women are good kind creatures | G |
| But they cannot dress at all | A |
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| Does her bonnet grace her features | G |
| Clear blue with a black lace fall | A |
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| Low Church very low in the gutter | E |
| High Church as ven'son high | - |
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| O'er the flower of her face gleams the flutter | E |
| Of a smile like a butterfly | - |
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| IX | G |
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| Herder Wieland Lessing | M |
| Bossuet Montalembert | J |
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| Fine names but the name worth guessing | M |
| Is the name of the sweet girl there | E |
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| The individual true man | N |
| Individuality | J |
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| A man's but one half some woman | I |
| The other half must be | J |
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| XI | J |
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| Persistent valour the sternest | J |
| With love's most gentle grace | G |
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| How grand is the eye fixed earnest | J |
| In the half seen up turned face | G |
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| XII | G |
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| 'How did you like the lecture | E |
| Was it not beautiful ' | - |
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| I should think she was 'I conjecture | E |
| That your brains have been gathering wool ' | - |
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| P S | G |
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| The Chairman was a rare man | N |
| At every telling point | J |
| He smiled at his post like a jolly host | J |
| Carving rich cuts from the joint | J |
| Which the name he bore was Richard Moore | E |
| Whom Heaven with grace anoint | J |
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| That conflict of opinion | I |
| It had its counterpart | J |
| In conflict for dominion | I |
| Between my head and heart | J |
James Thomson
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