Phantasmagoria Canto Iii ( Scarmoges ) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GHGIH EJE E KEKKE LMLLM NONNO PMPPM EHEEH QHQQH EMEEM RSRRS TMTTM UVVVV WEWWE XYZZY A2EA2ME B2C2B2B2C2 HVHHV XVXXV D2ED2D2E VE2VVE2AND did you really walk said I | A |
On such a wretched night | B |
I always fancied Ghosts could fly | A |
If not exactly in the sky | A |
Yet at a fairish height | B |
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It's very well said he for Kings | C |
To soar above the earth | D |
But Phantoms often find that wings | C |
Like many other pleasant things | C |
Cost more than they are worth | D |
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Spectres of course are rich and so | E |
Can buy them from the Elves | F |
But WE prefer to keep below | E |
They're stupid company you know | E |
For any but themselves | F |
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For though they claim to be exempt | G |
From pride they treat a Phantom | H |
As something quite beneath contempt | G |
Just as no Turkey ever dreamt | I |
Of noticing a Bantam | H |
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They seem too proud said I to go | E |
To houses such as mine | J |
Pray how did they contrive to know | E |
So quickly that 'the place was low ' | - |
And that I 'kept bad wine' | E |
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Inspector Kobold came to you | K |
The little Ghost began | E |
Here I broke in Inspector who | K |
Inspecting Ghosts is something new | K |
Explain yourself my man | E |
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His name is Kobold said my guest | L |
One of the Spectre order | M |
You'll very often see him dressed | L |
In a yellow gown a crimson vest | L |
And a night cap with a border | M |
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He tried the Brocken business first | N |
But caught a sort of chill | O |
So came to England to be nursed | N |
And here it took the form of THIRST | N |
Which he complains of still | O |
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Port wine he says when rich and sound | P |
Warms his old bones like nectar | M |
And as the inns where it is found | P |
Are his especial hunting ground | P |
We call him the INN SPECTRE | M |
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I bore it bore it like a man | E |
This agonizing witticism | H |
And nothing could be sweeter than | E |
My temper till the Ghost began | E |
Some most provoking criticism | H |
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Cooks need not be indulged in waste | Q |
Yet still you'd better teach them | H |
Dishes should have SOME SORT of taste | Q |
Pray why are all the cruets placed | Q |
Where nobody can reach them | H |
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That man of yours will never earn | E |
His living as a waiter | M |
Is that queer THING supposed to burn | E |
It's far too dismal a concern | E |
To call a Moderator | M |
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The duck was tender but the peas | R |
Were very much too old | S |
And just remember if you please | R |
The NEXT time you have toasted cheese | R |
Don't let them send it cold | S |
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You'd find the bread improved I think | T |
By getting better flour | M |
And have you anything to drink | T |
That looks a LITTLE less like ink | T |
And isn't QUITE so sour | M |
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Then peering round with curious eyes | U |
He muttered Goodness gracious | V |
And so went on to criticise | V |
Your room's an inconvenient size | V |
It's neither snug nor spacious | V |
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That narrow window I expect | W |
Serves but to let the dusk in | E |
But please said I to recollect | W |
'Twas fashioned by an architect | W |
Who pinned his faith on Ruskin | E |
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I don't care who he was Sir or | X |
On whom he pinned his faith | Y |
Constructed by whatever law | Z |
So poor a job I never saw | Z |
As I'm a living Wraith | Y |
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What a re markable cigar | A2 |
How much are they a dozen | E |
I growled No matter what they are | A2 |
You're getting as familiar | M |
As if you were my cousin | E |
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Now that's a thing I WILL NOT STAND | B2 |
And so I tell you flat | C2 |
Aha said he we're getting grand | B2 |
Taking a bottle in his hand | B2 |
I'll soon arrange for THAT | C2 |
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And here he took a careful aim | H |
And gaily cried Here goes | V |
I tried to dodge it as it came | H |
But somehow caught it all the same | H |
Exactly on my nose | V |
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And I remember nothing more | X |
That I can clearly fix | V |
Till I was sitting on the floor | X |
Repeating Two and five are four | X |
But FIVE AND TWO are six | V |
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What really passed I never learned | D2 |
Nor guessed I only know | E |
That when at last my sense returned | D2 |
The lamp neglected dimly burned | D2 |
The fire was getting low | E |
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Through driving mists I seemed to see | V |
A Thing that smirked and smiled | E2 |
And found that he was giving me | V |
A lesson in Biography | V |
As if I were a child | E2 |
Lewis Carroll
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