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