The Post That Fitted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFF GGHH EEDE EEIE EEJJ KKEE EELL| Though tangled and twisted the course of true love | A |
| This ditty explains | B |
| No tangle's so tangled it cannot improve | C |
| If the Lover has brains | B |
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| Ere the seamer bore him Eastward Sleary was engaged to marry | D |
| An attractive girl at Tunbridge whom he called quot my little Carrie quot | E |
| Sleary's pay was very modest Sleary was the other way | F |
| Who can cook a two plate dinner on eight poor rupees a day | F |
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| Long he pondered o'er the question in his scantly furnished quarters | G |
| Then proposed to Minnie Boffkin eldest of Judge Boffkin's daughters | G |
| Certainly an impecunious Subaltern was not a catch | H |
| But the Boffkins knew that Minnie mightn't make another match | H |
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| So they recognised the business and to feed and clothe the bride | E |
| Got him made a Something Something somewhere on the Bombay side | E |
| Anyhow the billet carried pay enough for him to marry | D |
| As the artless Sleary put it quot Just the thing for me and Carrie quot | E |
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| Did he therefore jilt Miss Boffkin impulse of a baser mind | E |
| No He started epileptic fits of an appalling kind | E |
| Of his modus operandi only this much I could gather | I |
| quot Pears's shaving sticks will give you little taste and lots of lather quot | E |
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| Frequently in public places his affliction used to smite | E |
| Sleary with distressing vigour always in the Boffkins' sight | E |
| Ere a week was over Minnie weepingly returned his ring | J |
| Told him his quot unhappy weakness quot stopped all thought of marrying | J |
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| Sleary bore the information with a chastened holy joy | K |
| Epileptic fits don't matter in Political employ | K |
| Wired three short words to Carrie took his ticket packed his kit | E |
| Bade farewell to Minnie Boffkin in one last long lingering fit | E |
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| Four weeks later Carrie Sleary read and laughed until she wept | E |
| Mrs Boffkin's warning letter on the quot wretched epilept quot | E |
| Year by year in pious patience vengeful Mrs Boffkin sits | L |
| Waiting for the Sleary babies to develop Sleary's fits | L |
Rudyard Kipling
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