Vignettes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEDE F GG HIJI KLKL MNMO| AND Smith has made money ' | A |
| 'O no that's a myth | B |
| Smith never made money | C |
| But money made Smith ' | A |
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| A sculptor is Deming a great man too | D |
| But the chisel of fancy the hand outstrips | E |
| While he talks of the wonder he's going to do | D |
| All the work of his fingers leaks out at his lips | E |
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| 'A scholar sir To Brown six tongues are known ' | - |
| The Blockhead never spoke one thought his own | F |
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| Johnson jingled his silver though he never had much to purloin | G |
| But Jackson jingled his intellect O give us Johnson's coin | G |
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| At school a blockhead sullen wordless dull | H |
| His size well known to even his smallest mate | I |
| Grown up men say ' How silent He is full | J |
| Of will and wisdom ' Truly mud is great | I |
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| An honest man Jones never broke the law | K |
| The wretch behind the bars he scorned with pride | L |
| But these same bars on every side he saw | K |
| Jones lived in prison on the other side | L |
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| A hideous fungus in the wine vault grows | M |
| Liver like loathsome shaking on its stalk | N |
| Above the wine vault too to him who knows | M |
| The cursed mushroom lives and walks and talks | O |
John Boyle O'reilly
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