Dedicatory Poem For "underwoods" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBBBBBB CBCBBDBDDB BEBEEDEDDE| TO her for I must still regard her | A |
| As feminine in her degree | B |
| Who has been my unkind bombarder | B |
| Year after year in grief and glee | B |
| Year after year with oaken tree | B |
| And yet betweenwhiles my laudator | B |
| In terms astonishing to me | B |
| To the Right Reverend The Spectator | B |
| I here a humble dedicator | B |
| Bring the last apples from my tree | B |
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| In tones of love in tones of warning | C |
| She hailed me through my brief career | B |
| And kiss and buffet night and morning | C |
| Told me my grandmamma was near | B |
| Whether she praised me high and clear | B |
| Through her unrivalled circulation | D |
| Or sanctimonious insincere | B |
| She damned me with a misquotation | D |
| A chequered but a sweet relation | D |
| Say was it not my granny dear | B |
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| Believe me granny altogether | B |
| Yours though perhaps to your surprise | E |
| Oft have you spruced my wounded feather | B |
| Oft brought a light into my eyes | E |
| For notice still the writer cries | E |
| In any civil age or nation | D |
| The book that is not talked of dies | E |
| So that shall be my termination | D |
| Whether in praise or execration | D |
| Still if you love me criticise | E |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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