An Alphabet Of Celebrities Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BB CCC DD EEE FF DDD GGG DD HH II JJJ BK LLL BBB MM AA NN ODO PPP QR OO SSS DD DDD TUU| A's Albert Edward well meaning but flighty | A |
| Who invited King Arthur the blameless and mighty | A |
| To meet Alcibiades and Aphrodite | A |
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| B is for Bernhardt who fails to awaken | B |
| Much feeling in Bismarck Barabbas and Bacon | B |
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| C is Columbus who tries to explain | C |
| How to balance an egg to the utter disdain | C |
| Of Confucius Carlyle Cleopatra and Cain | C |
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| D's for Diogenes Darwin and Dante | D |
| Who delight in the dance Of a Darling Bacchante | D |
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| E is for Edison making believe | E |
| He's invented a clever contrivance for Eve | E |
| Who complained that she never could laugh in her sleeve | E |
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| F is for Franklin who fearfully shocks | F |
| The feelings of Fenelon Faber and Fox | F |
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| G is Godiva whose great bareback feat | D |
| She kindly but firmly declines to repeat | D |
| Though Gounod and Goldsmith implore and entreat | D |
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| H is for Handel who pours out his soul | G |
| Through the bagpipes to Howells and Homer who roll | G |
| On the floor in an ecstasy past all control | G |
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| I is for Ibsen reciting a play | D |
| While Irving and Ingersoll hasten away | D |
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| J is for Johnson who only says Pish | H |
| To Jonah who tells him his tale of a fish | H |
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| K is the Kaiser who kindly repeats | I |
| Some original verses to Kipling and Keats | I |
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| L is Lafontaine who finds he's unable | J |
| To interest Luther and Liszt in his fable | J |
| While Loie continues to dance on the table | J |
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| M is Macduff who's prevailed upon Milton | B |
| And Montaigne and Manon to each try a kilt on | K |
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| N is Napoleon shrouded in gloom | L |
| With Nero Narcissus and Nordau to whom | L |
| He's explaining the manual of arms with a broom | L |
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| O is for Oliver casting aspersion | B |
| On Omar that awfully dissolute Persian | B |
| Though secretly longing to join the diversion | B |
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| P is for Peter who hollers No No | M |
| Through the keyhole to Paine Paderewski and Poe | M |
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| Q is the Queen so noble and free | A |
| For further particulars look under V | A |
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| R's Rubenstein playing that old thing in F | N |
| To Rollo and Rembrandt who wish they were deaf | N |
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| S is for Swinburne who seeking the true the good and the beautiful visits the Zoo | O |
| Where he chances on Sappho and Mr Sardou | D |
| And Socrates all with the same end in view | O |
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| T is for Talleyrand toasting Miss Truth | P |
| By the side of her well in a glass of vermouth | P |
| And presenting Mark Twain as the friend of his youth | P |
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| U is for Undine pursuing Ulysses | Q |
| And Umberto who flee her damp death dealing kisses | R |
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| V is Victoria noble and true | O |
| For further particulars look under Q | O |
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| W's Wagner who sang and played lots for Washington Wesley and good Doctor Watts | S |
| His prurient plots pained Wesley and Watts | S |
| But Washington said he enjoyed them in spots | S |
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| X is Xantippe who's having her say | D |
| And frightening the army of Xerxes away | D |
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| Y is for Young the great Mormon saint | D |
| Who thinks little Yum Yum and Yvette so quaint | D |
| He has to be instantly held in restraint | D |
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| Z is for Zola presenting La Terre | T |
| To Zenobia the brave and Zuleika the fair | U |
| Whose blushes they artfully conceal with their hair | U |
Oliver Herford
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