The Palace Of Humbug Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB B CCC DDD BBB EEE BBB FFF GGG BBB HHI JJJ KKK BBB LMB MMB BNB OBB PPP BAB MMM| Lays of Mystery | A |
| Imagination and Humor | B |
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| Number | B |
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| I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls | C |
| And each damp thing that creeps and crawls | C |
| Went wobble wobble on the walls | C |
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| Faint odours of departed cheese | D |
| Blown on the dank unwholesome breeze | D |
| Awoke the never ending sneeze | D |
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| Strange pictures decked the arras drear | B |
| Strange characters of woe and fear | B |
| The humbugs of the social sphere | B |
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| One showed a vain and noisy prig | E |
| That shouted empty words and big | E |
| At him that nodded in a wig | E |
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| And one a dotard grim and gray | B |
| Who wasteth childhood's happy day | B |
| In work more profitless than play | B |
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| Whose icy breast no pity warms | F |
| Whose little victims sit in swarms | F |
| And slowly sob on lower forms | F |
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| And one a green thyme honoured Bank | G |
| Where flowers are growing wild and rank | G |
| Like weeds that fringe a poisoned tank | G |
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| All birds of evil omen there | B |
| Flood with rich Notes the tainted air | B |
| The witless wanderer to snare | B |
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| The fatal Notes neglected fall | H |
| No creature heeds the treacherous call | H |
| For all those goodly Strawn Baits Pall | I |
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| The wandering phantom broke and fled | J |
| Straightway I saw within my head | J |
| A vision of a ghostly bed | J |
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| Where lay two worn decrepit men | K |
| The fictions of a lawyer's pen | K |
| Who never more might breathe again | K |
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| The serving man of Richard Roe | B |
| Wept inarticulate with woe | B |
| She wept that waiting on John Doe | B |
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| quot Oh rouse quot I urged quot the waning sense | L |
| With tales of tangled evidence | M |
| Of suit demurrer and defence quot | B |
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| quot Vain quot she replied quot such mockeries | M |
| For morbid fancies such as these | M |
| No suits can suit no plea can please quot | B |
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| And bending o'er that man of straw | B |
| She cried in grief and sudden awe | N |
| Not inappropriately quot Law quot | B |
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| The well remembered voice he knew | O |
| He smiled he faintly muttered quot Sue quot | B |
| Her very name was legal too | B |
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| The night was fled the dawn was nigh | P |
| A hurricane went raving by | P |
| And swept the Vision from mine eye | P |
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| Vanished that dim and ghostly bed | B |
| The hangings tape the tape was red happy | A |
| 'Tis o'er and Doe and Roe are dead | B |
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| Oh yet my spirit inly crawls | M |
| What time it shudderingly recalls | M |
| That horrid dream of marble halls | M |
Lewis Carroll
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