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 HallA
Sunday evening date to fixB
Fifteenth April sixty sixB
Speech reported and redactedC
By a fellow much distractedD
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Who lectures No mere scornerE
Clear brained his heart is warmF
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She sits at the nearest comerE
Of I will not say what formF
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The Conflict of OpinionsG
In the Present Day saith ChairE
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What muff in the British dominionsG
Could dispute that she is fairE
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Mammon worship is horridD
Plutocracy is baseG
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Dark hair from a fine small foreheadH
I catch but the still side faceG
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We wallow in mere dimensionI
The Big to us is GreatJ
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If she stood at her utmost tensionI
She might pass four feet eightJ
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V-
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We lay on colour in splashesG
With a mop or a broom for brushK
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How dark are her long eyelashesG
How pure is her cheek's slight flushK
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But we have no perceptionI
For form the divinest nowL
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Each curve there is perfectionI
In nostril chin and browL
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Our women are good kind creaturesG
But they cannot dress at allA
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Does her bonnet grace her featuresG
Clear blue with a black lace fallA
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VIII-
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Low Church very low in the gutterE
High Church as ven'son high-
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O'er the flower of her face gleams the flutterE
Of a smile like a butterfly-
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IXG
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Herder Wieland LessingM
Bossuet MontalembertJ
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Fine names but the name worth guessingM
Is the name of the sweet girl thereE
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The individual true manN
IndividualityJ
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A man's but one half some womanI
The other half must beJ
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XIJ
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Persistent valour the sternestJ
With love's most gentle graceG
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How grand is the eye fixed earnestJ
In the half seen up turned faceG
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XIIG
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'How did you like the lectureE
Was it not beautiful '-
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I should think she was 'I conjectureE
That your brains have been gathering wool '-
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P SG
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The Chairman was a rare manN
At every telling pointJ
He smiled at his post like a jolly hostJ
Carving rich cuts from the jointJ
Which the name he bore was Richard MooreE
Whom Heaven with grace anointJ
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That conflict of opinionI
It had its counterpartJ
In conflict for dominionI
Between my head and heartJ

James Thomson



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