Mark Twain: A Pipe Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ BKBKLMLN O| Well I recall how first I met | A |
| Mark Twain an infant barely three | B |
| Rolling a tiny cigarette | A |
| While cooing on his nurse's knee | B |
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| Since then in every sort of place | C |
| I've met with Mark and heard him joke | D |
| Yet how can I describe his face | C |
| I never saw it for the smoke | D |
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| At school he won a smokership | E |
| At Harvard College Cambridge Mass | F |
| His name was soon on every lip | E |
| They made him smoker of his class | F |
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| Who will forget his smoking bout | G |
| With Mount Vesuvius our cheers | H |
| When Mount Vesuvius went out | G |
| And didn't smoke again for years | H |
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| The news was flashed to England's King | I |
| Who begged Mark Twain to come and stay | J |
| Offered him dukedoms anything | I |
| To smoke the London fog away | J |
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| But Mark was firm I bow said he | B |
| To no imperial command | K |
| No ducal coronet for me | B |
| My smoke is for my native land | K |
| For Mark there waits a brighter crown | L |
| When Peter comes his card to read | M |
| He'll take the sign No Smoking down | L |
| Then Heaven will be Heaven indeed | N |
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| Oliver Herford | O |
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