Behold, As Goblins Dark Of Mien Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HAIA JKJK LMLM| BEHOLD as goblins dark of mien | A |
| And portly tyrants dyed with crime | B |
| Change in the transformation scene | A |
| At Christmas in the pantomime | B |
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| Instanter at the prompter's cough | C |
| The fairy bonnets them and they | D |
| Throw their abhorred carbuncles off | E |
| And blossom like the flowers in May | D |
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| So mankind to angelic eyes | F |
| So through the scenes of life below | G |
| In life's ironical disguise | F |
| A travesty of man ye go | G |
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| But fear not ere the curtain fall | H |
| Death in the transformation scene | A |
| Steps forward from her pedestal | I |
| Apparent as the fairy Queen | A |
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| And coming frees you in a trice | J |
| From all your lendings lust of fame | K |
| Ungainly virtue ugly vice | J |
| Terror and tyranny and shame | K |
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| So each at last himself for good | L |
| In that dear country lays him down | M |
| At last beloved and understood | L |
| And pure in feature and renown | M |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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