The Sphinx Of The Tuileries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GAHIJKLM DNDNOPAP QKRMSTUT VWXYZAVA| Out of the Latin Quarter | A |
| I came to the lofty door | B |
| Where the two marble Sphinxes guard | C |
| The Pavilion de Flore | B |
| Two Cockneys stood by the gate and one | D |
| Observed as they turned to go | E |
| No wonder He likes that sort of thing | F |
| He's a Sphinx himself you know | E |
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| I thought as I walked where the garden glowed | G |
| In the sunset's level fire | A |
| Of the Charlatan whom the Frenchmen loathe | H |
| And the Cockneys all admire | I |
| They call him a Sphinx it pleases him | J |
| And if we narrowly read | K |
| We will find some truth in the flunkey's praise | L |
| The man is a Sphinx indeed | M |
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| For the Sphinx with breast of woman | D |
| And face so debonair | N |
| Had the sleek false paws of a lion | D |
| That could furtively seize and tear | N |
| So far to the shoulders but if you took | O |
| The Beast in reverse you would find | P |
| The ignoble form of a craven cur | A |
| Was all that lay behind | P |
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| She lived by giving to simple folk | Q |
| A silly riddle to read | K |
| And when they failed she drank their blood | R |
| In cruel and ravenous greed | M |
| But at last came one who knew her word | S |
| And she perished in pain and shame | T |
| This bastard Sphinx leads the same base life | U |
| And his end will be the same | T |
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| For an Oedipus People is coming fast | V |
| With swelled feet limping on | W |
| If they shout his true name once aloud | X |
| His false foul power is gone | Y |
| Afraid to fight and afraid to fly | Z |
| He cowers in an abject shiver | A |
| The people will come to their own at last | V |
| God is not mocked forever | A |
John Hay
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