John Skelton Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEBBFFFAAAGGHH IIJJJJJJJAAABBKKKLLM MMBBBBNNOO| What could be dafter | A |
| Than John Skelton's laughter | A |
| What sound more tenderly | B |
| Than his pretty poetry | B |
| So where to rank old Skelton | C |
| He was no monstrous Milton | C |
| Nor wrote no Paradise Lost | D |
| So wondered at by most | E |
| Phrased so disdainfully | B |
| Composed so painfully | B |
| He struck what Milton missed | F |
| Milling an English grist | F |
| With homely turn and twist | F |
| He was English through and through | A |
| Not Greek nor French nor Jew | A |
| Though well their tongues he knew | A |
| The living and the dead | G |
| Learned Erasmus said | G |
| Hie 'unum Britannicarum | H |
| Lumen et decus literarum | H |
| But oh Colin Clout | I |
| How his pen flies about | I |
| Twiddling and turning | J |
| Scorching and burning | J |
| Thrusting and thrumming | J |
| How it hurries with humming | J |
| Leaping and running | J |
| At the tipsy topsy Tunning | J |
| Of Mistress Eleanor Rumming | J |
| How for poor Philip Sparrow | A |
| Was murdered at Carow | A |
| How our hearts he does harrow | A |
| Jest and grief mingle | B |
| In this jangle jingle | B |
| For he will not stop | K |
| To sweep nor mop | K |
| To prune nor prop | K |
| To cut each phrase up | L |
| Like beef when we sup | L |
| Nor sip at each line | M |
| As at brandy wine | M |
| Or port when we dine | M |
| But angrily wittily | B |
| Tenderly prettily | B |
| Laughingly learnedly | B |
| Sadly madly | B |
| Helter skelter John | N |
| Rhymes serenely on | N |
| As English poets should | O |
| Old John you do me good | O |
Robert Von Ranke Graves
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