Ars Postera Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGF BHIHJKIK BLMLANFN BOFOFBFB BFPFNQFQ BFRFSITI| On an advertisement of A Comedy of Sighs | A |
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| Mr Aubrey Beer de Beers | B |
| You're getting quite a high renown | C |
| Your Comedy of Leers you know | D |
| Is posted all about the town | C |
| This sort of stuff I cannot puff | E |
| As Boston says it makes me 'tired' | F |
| Your Japanee Rossetti girl | G |
| Is not a thing to be desired | F |
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| Mr Aubrey Beer de Beers | B |
| New English Art excuse the chaff | H |
| Is like the Newest Humour style | I |
| It's not a thing at which to laugh | H |
| But all the same you need not maim | J |
| A beauty reared on Nature's rules | K |
| A simple maid au naturel | I |
| Is worth a dozen spotted ghouls | K |
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| Mr Aubrey Beer de Beers | B |
| You put strange phantoms on our walls | L |
| If not so daring as To day's | M |
| Nor quite so Hardy as St Paul's | L |
| Her sidelong eyes her giddy guise | A |
| Grande Dame Sans Merci she may be | N |
| But there is that about her throat | F |
| Which I myself don't care to see | N |
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| Mr Aubrey Beer de Beers | B |
| The Philistines across the way | O |
| They say her lips well never mind | F |
| Precisely what it is they say | O |
| But I have heard a drastic word | F |
| That scarce is fit for dainty ears | B |
| But then their taste is not the kind | F |
| Of taste to flatter Beer de Beers | B |
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| Bless me Aubrey Beer de Beers | B |
| On fair Elysian lawns apart | F |
| Burd Helen of the Trojan time | P |
| Smiles at the latest mode of Art | F |
| Howe'er it be it seems to me | N |
| It's not important to be New | Q |
| New Art would better Nature's best | F |
| But Nature knows a thing or two | Q |
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| Aubrey Aubrey Beer de Beers | B |
| Are there no models at your gate | F |
| Live shapely possible and clean | R |
| Or won't they do to 'decorate' | F |
| Then by all means bestrew your scenes | S |
| With half the lotuses that blow | I |
| Pothooks and fishing lines and things | T |
| But let the human woman go | I |
Owen Seaman
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