The Craftsman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD AEFC BAAF BCCG AFHE FGBI GBBA| Once after long drawn revel at The Mermaid | A |
| He to the overbearing Boanerges | B |
| Jonson uttered if half of it were liquor | C |
| Blessed be the vintage | D |
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| Saying how at an alehouse under Cotswold | A |
| He had made sure of his very Cleopatra | E |
| Drunk with enormous salvation con temning | F |
| Love for a tinker | C |
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| How while he hid from Sir Thomas's keepers | B |
| Crouched in a ditch and drenched by the midnight | A |
| Dews he had listened to gipsy Juliet | A |
| Rail at the dawning | F |
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| How at Bankside a boy drowning kittens | B |
| Winced at the business whereupon his sister | C |
| Lady Macbeth aged seven thrust 'em under | C |
| Sombrely scornful | G |
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| How on a Sabbath hushed and compassionate | A |
| She being known since her birth to the townsfolk | F |
| Stratford dredged and delivered from Avon | H |
| Dripping Ophelia | E |
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| So with a thin third finger marrying | F |
| Drop to wine drop domed on the table | G |
| Shakespeare opened his heart till the sunrise | B |
| Entered to hear him | I |
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| London wakened and he imperturbable | G |
| Passed from waking to hurry after shadows | B |
| Busied upon shows of no earthly importance | B |
| Yes but he knew it | A |
Rudyard Kipling
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