De Sauty - An Electro-chemical Eclogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDECF FGCA DHAF AIID FCCJA DKFA DDKA CJIA LFFA CCCI AFAA KFMJN AAJA| The first messages received through the submarine cable were sent by an electrical expert a mysterious personage who signed himself De Sauty | A |
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| Professor Blue Nose | B |
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| PROFESSOR | C |
| Tell me O Provincial speak Ceruleo Nasal | D |
| Lives there one De Sauty extant now among you | E |
| Whispering Boanerges son of silent thunder | C |
| Holding talk with nations | F |
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| Is there a De Sauty ambulant on Tellus | F |
| Bifid cleft like mortals dormient in nightcap | G |
| Having sight smell hearing food receiving feature | C |
| Three times daily patent | A |
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| Breathes there such a being O Ceruleo Nasal | D |
| Or is he a mythus ancient word for humbug | H |
| Such as Livy told about the wolf that wet nursed | A |
| Romulus and Remus | F |
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| Was he born of woman this alleged De Sauty | A |
| Or a living product of galvanic action | I |
| Like the acarus bred in Crosse's flint solution | I |
| Speak thou Cyano Rhinal | D |
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| BLUE NOSE | F |
| Many things thou askest jackknife bearing stranger | C |
| Much conjecturing mortal pork and treacle waster | C |
| Pretermit thy whittling wheel thine ear flap toward me | J |
| Thou shall hear them answered | A |
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| When the charge galvanic tingled through the cable | D |
| At the polar focus of the wire electric | K |
| Suddenly appeared a white faced man among us | F |
| Called himself DE SAUTY | A |
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| As the small opossum held in pouch maternal | D |
| Grasps the nutrient organ whence the term mammalia | D |
| So the unknown stranger held the wire electric | K |
| Sucking in the current | A |
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| When the current strengthened bloomed the pale faced stranger | C |
| Took no drink nor victual yet grew fat and rosy | J |
| And from time to time in sharp articulation | I |
| Said All right DE SAUTY | A |
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| From the lonely station passed the utterance spreading | L |
| Through the pines and hemlocks to the groves of steeples | F |
| Till the land was filled with loud reverberations | F |
| Of All right DE SAUTY | A |
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| When the current slackened drooped the mystic stranger | C |
| Faded faded faded as the stream grew weaker | C |
| Wasted to a shadow with a hartshorn odor | C |
| Of disintegration | I |
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| Drops of deliquescence glistened on his forehead | A |
| Whitened round his feet the dust of efflorescence | F |
| Till one Monday morning when the flow suspended | A |
| There was no De Sauty | A |
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| Nothing but a cloud of elements organic | K |
| C O H N Ferrum Chlor Flu Sil Potassa | F |
| Cale Sod Phosph Mag Sulphur Mang | M |
| Alumin Cuprum | J |
| Such as man is made of | N |
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| Born of stream galvanic with it he had perished | A |
| There is no De Sauty now there is no current | A |
| Give us a new cable then again we'll hear him | J |
| Cry All right DE SAUTY | A |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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