A Sombre Retrospect Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGF HFHF IFJ KF F LMLN OFOF| Long long ago in that heroic time | A |
| When I a coy and modest youth was shot | B |
| Out on this dust heap of careers and crime | A |
| To try and learn what's what | C |
| - | |
| I had a servitor a swarthy knave | D |
| Who showed an almost irreligious taste | E |
| For wearing nothing but a turban save | D |
| A rag about the waist | E |
| - | |
| This apparition gave me such a start | F |
| That I endowed him with a cast off pair | G |
| Of inexpressibles and said 'Depart | F |
| And be no longer bare ' | - |
| - | |
| He took the offering with broken thanks | H |
| But day succeeded day and still revealed | F |
| Those sombre and attenuated shanks | H |
| Intensely unconcealed | F |
| - | |
| Until at last the climax came when I | I |
| Resolved to bring this matter to an end | F |
| And when I saw him passing shouted 'Hi | J |
| Where are your trousers friend ' | - |
| - | |
| Halting he gave a deferential bow | K |
| Then to my horror beamingly replied | F |
| 'Master not see I wearing trousers now ' | - |
| I would have said he lied | F |
| - | |
| But could not As I shaped the glowing phrase | L |
| I looked upon his turban looked again | M |
| Mine own familiar pattern met my gaze | L |
| And all the truth was plain | N |
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| Th' unhappy creature Eastern to the core | O |
| Holding my gift in superstitious dread | F |
| Had made a turban out of it and wore | O |
| His trousers on his head | F |
John Kendall (dum-dum)
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