A Song Of Greek Prose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBA CCCDDC EEEFFE GGGHHG AAIJJA| Thrice happy are those | A |
| Who ne'er heard of Greek Prose | A |
| Or Greek Poetry either as far as that goes | A |
| For Liddell and Scott | B |
| Shall cumber them not | B |
| Nor Sargent nor Sidgwick shall break their repose | A |
| - | |
| But I late at night | C |
| By the very bad light | C |
| Of very bad gas must painfully write | C |
| Some stuff that a Greek | D |
| With his delicate cheek | D |
| Would smile at as 'barbarous' faith he well might | C |
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| For when it is done | E |
| I doubt if for one | E |
| I myself could explain how the meaning might run | E |
| And as for the style | F |
| Well it's hardly worth while | F |
| To talk about style where style there is none | E |
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| It was all very fine | G |
| For a poet divine | G |
| Like Byron to rave of Greek women and wine | G |
| But the Prose that I sing | H |
| Is a different thing | H |
| And I frankly acknowledge it's not in my line | G |
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| So away with Greek Prose | A |
| The source of my woes | A |
| This metre's too tough I must draw to a close | I |
| May Sargent be drowned | J |
| In the ocean profound | J |
| And Sidgwick be food for the carrion crows | A |
Robert Fuller Murray
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