Becky Sharp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CBCB DEDE A F GBGB GBGB A H HIHI JKIL D I CEI EMEM| I | A |
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| THE DITTY | B |
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| O BECKY SHARP dear Becky Sharp | C |
| So very clever and so witty | B |
| I'm half inclined your praise to harp | C |
| In one at least well worded ditty | B |
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| First be it sung You're framed for love | D |
| 'For love thou fool ' cried Beck upbringing | E |
| And snatching up the tongs half clove | D |
| My head and off 'thou fool ' went singing | E |
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| II | A |
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| CONSOLATION | F |
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| SWEET Becky Sharp sweet Beck upon | G |
| A time I tried to frame a ditty | B |
| For which you knock'd me down anon | G |
| And left me sprawling without pity | B |
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| Sir Crawley plus Sir Sprawley then | G |
| Was I and yet you little honey | B |
| How charming wasn't next half hour when | G |
| You came and kissd away my money | B |
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| III | A |
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| THE PRECIOUS PEARL | H |
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| DEAR Becky Sharp you lovely girl | H |
| Come now on knacks my money's lavished | I |
| I yet have left one precious pearl | H |
| With which your brokers may be ravished | I |
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| 'Where Crawley dear ' Why even here | J |
| Ah no I dream Sweet mercy bless us | K |
| I thought I'd yet that manhood pet | I |
| I had ere I had thy caresses | L |
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| IV | D |
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| THE TOAST | I |
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| BEST Becky Sharp pray do not carp | C |
| Nor turn your cherry lip up snarling | E |
| 'Man are you mad this Becky bad | I |
| Why she's a visionary darling ' | - |
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| Is't so ''Tis so ' Your glasses ring | E |
| Ring then and toast the bright ideal | M |
| Ah bring the ideal Beckies bring | E |
| And take away the Beckies real | M |
Joseph Skipsey
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