Delilah Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCC DDEE AAFF GGHH GGGG GGGG IIJJ KKGG LLGG AA| We have another viceroy now those days are dead and done | A |
| Of Delilah Aberyswith and depraved Ulysses Gunne | A |
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| Delilah Aberyswith was a lady not too young | B |
| With a perfect taste in dresses and a badly bitted tongue | B |
| With a thirst for information and a greater thirst for praise | C |
| And a little house in Simla in the Prehistoric Days | C |
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| By reason of her marriage to a gentleman in power | D |
| Delilah was acquainted with the gossip of the hour | D |
| And many little secrets of the half official kind | E |
| Were whispered to Delilah and she bore them all in mind | E |
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| She patronized extensively a man Ulysses Gunne | A |
| Whose mode of earning money was a low and shameful one | A |
| He wrote for certain papers which as everybody knows | F |
| Is worse than serving in a shop or scaring off the crows | F |
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| He praised her quot queenly beauty quot first and later on he hinted | G |
| At the quot vastness of her intellect quot with compliment unstinted | G |
| He went with her a riding and his love for her was such | H |
| That he lent her all his horses and she galled them very much | H |
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| One day THEY brewed a secret of a fine financial sort | G |
| It related to Appointments to a Man and a Report | G |
| 'Twas almost wortth the keeping only seven people knew it | G |
| And Gunne rose up to seek the truth and patiently ensue it | G |
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| It was a Viceroy's Secret but perhaps the wine was red | G |
| Perhaps an Aged Concillor had lost his aged head | G |
| Perhaps Delilah's eyes were bright Delilah's whispers sweet | G |
| The Aged Member told her what 'twere treason to repeat | G |
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| Ulysses went a riding and they talked of love and flowers | I |
| Ulysses went a calling and he called for several hours | I |
| Ulysses went a waltzing and Delilah helped him dance | J |
| Ulysses let the waltzes go and waited for his chance | J |
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| The summer sun was setting and the summer air was still | K |
| The couple went a walking in the shade of Summer Hill | K |
| The wasteful sunset faded out in turkis green and gold | G |
| Ulysses pleaded softly and that bad Delilah told | G |
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| Next morn a startled Empire learnt the all important news | L |
| Next week the Aged Councillor was shaking in his shoes | L |
| Next month I met Delilah and she did not show the least | G |
| Hesitation in affirming that Ulysses was a quot beast quot | G |
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| We have another Viceroy now those days are dead and done | A |
| Off Delilah Aberyswith and most mean Ulysses Gunne | A |
Rudyard Kipling
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