The Best Pipe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBD ABABBDBD ABABBDBD BDBD| In vain you fervently extol | A |
| In vain you puff your cutty clay | B |
| A twelvemonth smoked and black as coal | A |
| 'Tis redolent of rank decay | B |
| And bones of monks long passed away | B |
| A fragrance I do not admire | C |
| And so I hold my nose and say | B |
| Give me a finely seasoned briar | D |
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| Macleod whose judgment on the whole | A |
| Is faultless has been led astray | B |
| To nurse a high born meerschaum bowl | A |
| For which he sweetly had to pay | B |
| Ah let him nurse it as he may | B |
| Before the colour mounts much higher | D |
| The grate shall be its fate one day | B |
| Give me a finely seasoned briar | D |
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| The heathen Turk of Istamboul | A |
| In oriental turban gay | B |
| Delights his unbelieving soul | A |
| With hookahs bubbling in a way | B |
| To fill a Christian with dismay | B |
| And wake the old Crusading fire | D |
| May no such pipe be mine I pray | B |
| Give me a finely seasoned briar | D |
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| Clay meerschaum hookah what are they | B |
| That I should view them with desire | D |
| Both now and when my hair is grey | B |
| Give me a finely seasoned briar | D |
Robert Fuller Murray
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