Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur Poem Rhyme Scheme

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How shall I be a poet	A
How shall I write in rhyme	B
You told me once the very wish	C
Partook of the sublime	B
Then tell me how Don't put me off	D
With your 'another time'	B
	-
The old man smiled to see him	B
To hear his sudden sally	E
He liked the lad to speak his mind	F
Enthusiastically	E
And thought There's no hum drum in him	B
Nor any shilly shally	E
	-
And would you be a poet	A
Before you've been to school	E
Ah well I hardly thought you	G
So absolute a fool	E
First learn to be spasmodic	H
A very simple rule	E
	-
For first you write a sentence	I
And then you chop it small	E
Then mix the bits and sort them out	J
Just as they chance to fall	E
The order of the phrases makes	K
No difference at all	E
	-
Then if you'd be impressive	L
Remember what I say	M
The abstract qualities begin	N
With capitals alway	O
The True the Good the Beautiful	E
These are the things that pay	M
	-
Next when you are describing	P
A shape or sound or tint	Q
Don't state the matter plainly	E
But put it in a hint	Q
And learn to look at all things	R
With a sort of mental squint	Q
	-
For instance if I wished Sir	S
Of mutton pies to tell	E
Should I say 'Dreams of fleecy flocks	T
Pent in a wheaten cell'	E
Why yes the old man said that phrase	U
Would answer very well	E
	-
Then fourthly there are epithets	V
That suit with any word	W
As well as Harvey's Reading Sauce	X
With fish or flesh or bird	W
Of these 'wild ' 'lonely ' 'weary ' 'strange '	-
Are much to be preferred	W
	-
And will it do O will it do	G
To take them in a lump	Y
As 'the wild man went his weary way	M
To a strange and lonely pump'	Y
Nay nay You must not hastily	E
To such conclusions jump	Y
	-
Such epithets like pepper	S
Give zest to what you write	Z
And if you strew them sparely	E
They whet the appetite	Z
But if you lay them on too thick	H
You spoil the matter quite	Z
	-
Last as to the arrangement	A2
Your reader you should show him	B
Must take what information he	E
Can get and look for no im	B
mature disclosure of the drift	B2
And purpose of your poem	B
	-
Therefore to test his patience	I
How much he can endure	C2
Mention no places names nor dates	D2
And evermore be sure	C2
Throughout the poem to be found	E2
Consistently obscure	C2
	-
First fix upon the limit	A
To which it shall extend	F2
Then fill it up with 'padding'	H
Beg some of any friend	F2
Your great sensation stanza	G2
You place towards the end	F2
	-
And what is a Sensation	H2
Grandfather tell me pray	M
I think I never heard the word	W
So used before to day	M
Be kind enough to mention one	H2
'Exempli grati acirc '	-
	-
And the old man looking sadly	E
Across the garden lawn	I2
Where here and there a dew drop	Y
Yet glittered in the dawn	I2
Said Go to the Adelphi	E
And see the 'Colleen Bawn '	-
	-
The word is due to Boucicault	M
The theory is his	J2
Where Life becomes a Spasm	B
And History a Whiz	J2
If that is not Sensation	H2
I don't know what it is	J2
	-
Now try your hand ere Fancy	E
Have lost its present glow	E
And then his grandson added	M
We'll publish it you know	E
Green cloth gold lettered at the back	H
In duodecimo	B
	-
Then proudly smiled the old man	K2
To see the eager lad	M
Rush madly for his pen and ink	H
And for his blotting pad	M
But when he thought of publishing	H
His face grew stern and sad	M

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Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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