Anecdote For Fathers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEDEFGFGBHBIJKJ KELELMLNOLPLOQOOEOLR OREROSTSTUVUVWEWOXYX Y| By the late W W of H M Inland Revenue Service | A |
| And is it so Can Folly stalk | B |
| And aim her unrespecting darts | C |
| In shades where grave Professors walk | B |
| And Bachelors of Arts | C |
| I have a boy not six years old | D |
| A sprite of birth and lineage high | E |
| His birth I did myself behold | D |
| His caste is in his eye | E |
| And oh his limbs are full of grace | F |
| His boyish beauty past compare | G |
| His mother's joy to wash his face | F |
| And mine to brush his hair | G |
| One morn we strolled on our short walk | B |
| With four goloshes on our shoes | H |
| And held the customary talk | B |
| That parents love to use | I |
| And oft I turn it into verse | J |
| And write it down upon a page | K |
| Which being sold supplies my purse | J |
| And ministers to age | K |
| So as we paced the curving High | E |
| To view the sights of Oxford town | L |
| We raised our feet like Nelly Bly | E |
| And then we put them down | L |
| 'Now little Edward answer me' | M |
| I said and clutched him by the gown | L |
| 'At Cambridge would you rather be | N |
| Or here in Oxford town ' | O |
| My boy replied with tiny frown | L |
| He'd been a year at Cavendish | P |
| 'I'd rather dwell in Oxford town | L |
| If I could have my wish ' | O |
| 'Now little Edward say why so | Q |
| My little Edward tell me why ' | O |
| 'Well really Pa I hardly know ' | O |
| 'Remarkable ' said I | E |
| 'For Cambridge has her 'King's Parade ' | O |
| And much the more becoming gown | L |
| Why should you slight her so ' I said | R |
| 'Compared with Oxford town ' | O |
| At this my boy hung down his head | R |
| While sterner grew the parent's eye | E |
| And six and thirty times I said | R |
| 'Come Edward tell me why ' | O |
| For I loved Cambridge where they deal | S |
| How strange in butter by the yard | T |
| And so with every third appeal | S |
| I hit him rather hard | T |
| Twelve times I struck as may be seen | U |
| For three times twelve is thirty six | V |
| When in a shop the Magazine | U |
| His tearful sight did fix | V |
| He saw it plain it made him smile | W |
| And thus to me he made reply | E |
| 'At Oxford there's a Crocodile | W |
| And that's the reason why ' | O |
| Oh Mr Editor my heart | X |
| For deeper lore would seldom yearn | Y |
| Could I believe the hundredth part | X |
| Of what from you I learn | Y |
Sir Arthur Quiller-couch
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