A Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD EFEFGG BHBIJJ KLKLMM BNBNO KPKPPP PQPQIH IEIEPP EPEPPP RPRPS IKIKPP EPEPB QOQOPP KGKGOO PPPPPP PPPPTU PVPWX IYIYZZ

Epilogue to 'The Two Poets of Croisic 'A
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What a pretty tale you told meB
Once upon a timeC
Said you found it somewhere scold meB
Was it prose or was it rhymeC
Greek or Latin Greek you saidD
While your shoulder propped my headD
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Anyhow there's no forgettingE
This much if no moreF
That a poet pray no pettingE
Yes a bard sir famed of yoreF
Went where suchlike used to goG
Singing for a prize you knowG
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Well he had to sing nor merelyB
Sing but play the lyreH
Playing was important clearlyB
Quite as singing I desireI
Sir you keep the fact in mindJ
For a purpose that's behindJ
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There stood he while deep attentionK
Held the judges roundL
Judges able I should mentionK
To detect the slightest soundL
Sung or played amiss such earsM
Had old judges it appearsM
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None the less he sang out boldlyB
Played in time and tuneN
Till the judges weighing coldlyB
Each note's worth seemed late or soonN
Sure to smile 'In vain one triesO
Picking faults out take the prize '-
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When a mischief Were they sevenK
Strings the lyre possessedP
Oh and afterwards elevenK
Thank you Well sir who had guessedP
Such ill luck in store it happedP
One of those same seven strings snappedP
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All was lost then No a cricketP
What 'cicada' PoohQ
Some mad thing that left its thicketP
For mere love of music flewQ
With its little heart on fireI
Lighted on the crippled lyreH
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So that when Ah joy our singerI
For his truant stringE
Feels with disconcerted fingerI
What does cricket else but flingE
Fiery heart forth sound the noteP
Wanted by the throbbing throatP
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Ay and ever to the endingE
Cricket chirps at needP
Executes the hand's intendingE
Promptly perfectly indeedP
Saves the singer from defeatP
With her chirrup low and sweetP
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Till at ending all the judgesR
Cry with one assentP
'Take the prize a prize who grudgesR
Such a voice and instrumentP
Why we took your lyre for harpS
So it shrilled us forth F sharp '-
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Did the conqueror spurn the creatureI
Once its service doneK
That's no such uncommon featureI
In the case when Music's sonK
Finds his Lotte's power too spentP
For aiding soul developmentP
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No This other on returningE
Homeward prize in handP
Satisfied his bosom's yearningE
Sir I hope you understandP
Said 'Some record there must beB
Of this cricket's help to me '-
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So he made himself a statueQ
Marble stood life sizeO
On the lyre he pointed at youQ
Perched his partner in the prizeO
Never more apart you foundP
Her he throned from him she crownedP
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That's the tale its applicationK
Somebody I knowG
Hopes one day for reputationK
Thro' his poetry that's OhG
All so learned and so wiseO
And deserving of a prizeO
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If he gains one will some ticketP
When his statue's builtP
Tell the gazer ''Twas a cricketP
Helped my crippled lyre whose liltP
Sweet and low when strength usurpedP
Softness' place i' the scale she chirpedP
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'For as victory was nighestP
While I sang and playedP
With my lyre at lowest highestP
Right alike one string that madeP
'Love' sound soft was snapt in twainT
Never to be heard againU
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'Had not a kind cricket flutteredP
Perched upon the placeV
Vacant left and duly utteredP
'Love Love Love ' whene'er the bassW
Asked the treble to atoneX
For its somewhat sombre drone '-
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But you don't know music WhereforeI
Keep on casting pearlsY
To a poet All I care forI
Is to tell him that a girl'sY
'Love' comes aptly in when gruffZ
Grows his singing There enoughZ

Robert Browning



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