The Bough Of Nonsense Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD EFEFGG BHBHBB IJIJBB KLKLBB BBBBBB| i AN IDYLL i | A |
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| Back from the Somme two Fusiliers | B |
| Limped painfully home the elder said | C |
| S Robert I ve lived three thousand years | B |
| This Summer and I m nine parts dead | C |
| R But if that s truly so I cried quick now | D |
| Through these great oaks and see the famous bough | D |
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| Where once a nonsense built her nest | E |
| With skulls and flowers and all things queer | F |
| In an old boot with patient breast | E |
| Hatching three eggs and the next year | F |
| S Foaled thirteen squamous young beneath and rid | G |
| Wales of drink melancholy and psalms she did | G |
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| Said he Before this quaint mood fails | B |
| We ll sit and weave a nonsense hymn | H |
| R Hanging it up with monkey tails | B |
| In a deep grove all hushed and dim | H |
| S To glorious yellow bunched banana trees | B |
| R Planted in dreams by pious Portuguese | B |
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| S Which men are wise beyond their time | I |
| And worship nonsense no one more | J |
| R Hard by among old quince and lime | I |
| They ve built a temple with no floor | J |
| S And whosoever worships in that place | B |
| He disappears from sight and leaves no trace | B |
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| R Once the Galatians built a fane | K |
| To Sense what duller God than that | L |
| S But the first day of autumn rain | K |
| The roof fell in and crushed them flat | L |
| R Ay for a roof of subtlest logic falls | B |
| When nonsense is foundation for the walls | B |
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| I tell him old Galatian tales | B |
| He caps them in quick Portuguese | B |
| While phantom creatures with green scales | B |
| Scramble and roll among the trees | B |
| The hymn swells on a bough above us sings | B |
| A row of bright pink birds flapping their wings | B |
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