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Bishop Blougram's Apology Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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NO more wine then we'll push back chairs and talk	A
A final glass for me though cool i' faith	B
We ought to have our Abbey back you see	C
It's different preaching in basilicas	C
And doing duty in some masterpiece	C
Like this of brother Pugin's bless his heart	D
I doubt if they're half baked those chalk rosettes	C
Ciphers and stucco twiddlings everywhere	E
It's just like breathing in a lime kiln eh	F
These hot long ceremonies of our church	G
Cost us a little oh they pay the price	C
You take me amply pay it Now we'll talk	A
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So you despise me Mr Gigadibs	C
No deprecation nay I beg you sir	H
Beside 't is our engagement don't you know	I
I promised if you'd watch a dinner out	J
We'd see truth dawn together truth that peeps	C
Over the glasses' edge when dinner's done	K
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And body gets its sop and holds its noise	C
And leaves soul free a little Now's the time	L
'T is break of day You do despise me then	M
And if I say despise me never fear	N
I know you do not in a certain sense	C
Not in my arm chair for example here	O
I well imagine you respect my place	C
Status entourage worldly circumstance	C
Quite to its value very much indeed	P
Are up to the protesting eyes of you	Q
In pride at being seated here for once	C
You'll turn it to such capital account	R
When somebody through years and years to come	S
Hints of the bishop names me that's enough	T
Blougram I knew him into it you slide	U
Dined with him once a Corpus Christi Day	V
All alone we two he's a clever man	W
And after dinner why the wine you know	I
Oh there was wine and good what with the wine	X
'Faith we began upon all sorts of talk	A
He's no bad fellow Blougram he had seen	Y
Something of mine he relished some review	Q
He's quite above their humbug in his heart	D
Half said as much indeed the thing's his trade	Z
I warrant Blougram's sceptical at times	C
How otherwise I liked him I confess	C
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Che che my dear sir as we say at Rome	A2
Don't you protest now It's fair give and take	B2
You have had your turn and spoken your home truths	C
The hand's mine now and here you follow suit	C2
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Thus much conceded still the first fact stays	C
You do despise me your ideal of life	D2
Is not the bishop's you would not be I	E2
You would like better to be Goethe now	F2
Or Buonaparte or bless me lower still	G2
Count D'Orsay so you did what you preferred	H2
Spoke as you thought and as you cannot help	I2
Believed or disbelieved no matter what	J2
So long as on that point whate'er it was	C
You loosed your mind were whole and sole yourself	K2
That my ideal never can include	L2
Upon that element of truth and worth	M2
Never be based for say they make me Pope	N2
They can't suppose it for our argument	O2
Why there I'm at my tether's end I've reached	P2
My height and not a height which pleases you	Q
An unbelieving Pope won't do you say	V
It's like those eerie stories nurses tell	Q2
Of how some actor on a stage played Death	R2
With pasteboard crown sham orb and tinselled dart	D
And called himself the monarch of the world	S2
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Then going in the tire room afterward	H2
Because the play was done to shift himself	K2
Got touched upon the sleeve familiarly	Q2
The moment he had shut the closet door	T2
By Death himself Thus God might touch a Pope	N2
At unawares ask what his baubles mean	Y
And whose part he presumed to play just now	F2
Best be yourself imperial plain and true	Q
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So drawing comfortable breath again	M
You weigh and find whatever more or less	C
I boast of my ideal realized	U2
Is nothing in the balance when opposed	V2
To your ideal your grand simple life	D2
Of which you will not realize one jot	W2
I am much you are nothing you would be all	Q2
I would be merely much you beat me there	E
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No friend you do not beat me hearken why	E2
The common problem yours mine every one's	C
Is not to fancy what were fair in life	D2
Provided it could be but finding first	X2
What may be then find how to make it fair	E
Up to our means a very different thing	Y2
No abstract intellectual plan of life	D2
Quite irrespective of life's plainest laws	C
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But one a man who is man and nothing more	T2
May lead within a world which by your leave	Z2
Is Rome or London not Fool's paradise	C
Embellish Rome idealize away	V
Make paradise of London if you can	W
You're welcome nay you're wise	C
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A simile	Q2
We mortals cross the ocean of this world	S2
Each in his average cabin of a life	D2
The best's not big the worst yields elbow room	A3
Now for our six months' voyage how prepare	E
You come on shipboard with a landsman's list	B3
Of things he calls convenient so they are	C3
An India screen is pretty furniture	H
A piano forte is a fine resource	C
All Balzac's novels occupy one shelf	K2
The new edition fifty volumes long	D3
And little Greek books with the funny type	E3
They get up well at Leipsic fill the next	F3
Go on slabbed marble what a bath it makes	C
And Parma's pride the Jerome let us add	G3
'T were pleasant could Correggio's fleeting glow	Q2
Hang full in face of one where'er one roams	C
Since he more than the others brings with him	H3
Italy's self the marvellous Modenese	C
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Yet was not on your list before perhaps	C
Alas friend here's the agent is't the name	I3
The captain or whoever's master here	O
You see him screw his face up what's his cry	E2
Ere you set foot on shipboard Six feet square	E
If you won't understand what six feet mean	Y
Compute and purchase stores accordingly	Q2
And if in pique because he overhauls	C
Your Jerome piano bath you come on board	J3
Bare why you cut a figure at the first	X2
While sympathetic landsmen see you off	K3
Not afterward when long ere half seas over	H
You peep up from your utterly naked boards	C
Into some snug and well appointed berth	M2
Like mine for instance try the cooler jug	L3
Put back the other but don't jog the ice	C
And mortified you mutter Well and good	M3
He sits enjoying his sea furniture	H
'T is stout and proper and there's store of it	N3
Though I've the better notion all agree	Q2
Of fitting rooms up Hang the carpenter	H
Neat ship shape fixings and contrivances	C
I would have brought my Jerome frame and all	Q2
And meantime you bring nothing never mind	O3
You've proved your artist nature what you don't	P3
You might bring so despise me as I say	C
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Now come let's backward to the starting place	C
See my way we're two college friends suppose	C
Prepare together for our voyage then	M
Each note and check the other in his work	Q3
Here's mine a bishop's outfit criticize	C
What's wrong why won't you be a bishop too	Q
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Why first you don't believe you don't and can't	R3
Not statedly that is and fixedly	Q2
And absolutely and exclusively	Q2
In any revelation called divine	X
No dogmas nail your faith and what remains	C
But say so like the honest man you are	C3
First therefore overhaul theology	Q2
Nay I too not a fool you please to think	S3
Must find believing every whit as hard	T3
And if I do not frankly say as much	U3
The ugly consequence is clear enough	T
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Now wait my friend well I do not believe	Z2
If you'll accept no faith that is not fixed	V3
Absolute and exclusive as you say	C
You're wrong I mean to prove it in due time	L
Meanwhile I know where difficulties lie	Q2
I could not cannot solve nor ever shall	Q2
So give up hope accordingly to solve	W3
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To you and over the wine Our dogmas then	M
With both of us though in unlike degree	Q2
Missing full credence overboard with them	X3
I mean to meet you on your own premise	C
Good there go mine in company with yours	C
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And now what are we unbelievers both	Y3
Calm and complete determinately fixed	V3
To day to morrow and for ever pray	C
You'll	Q2