De Tea Fabula Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBDEDFGEHIHIJKLM LMNKIOIOPKQRQSTRKUVU WKXYXZA2KXVXVXVXVXVN VAVAVVVDo I sleep Do I dream | A |
Am I hoaxed by a scout | B |
Are things what they seem | A |
Or is Sophists about | B |
Is our 'to ti en einai' a failure or is Robert Browning played | C |
out | B |
Which expressions like these | D |
May be fairly applied | E |
By a party who sees | D |
A Society skied | F |
Upon tea that the Warden of Keble had biled with legitimate | G |
pride | E |
'Twas November the third | H |
And I says to Bill Nye | I |
'Which it's true what I've heard | H |
If you're so to speak fly | I |
There's a chance of some tea and cheap culture the sort | J |
recommended as High ' | K |
Which I mentioned its name | L |
And he ups and remarks | M |
'If dress coats is the game | L |
And pow wow in the Parks | M |
Then I 'm nuts on Sordello and Hohenstiel Schwangau and similar | N |
Snarks ' | K |
Now the pride of Bill Nye | I |
Cannot well be express'd | O |
For he wore a white tie | I |
And a cut away vest | O |
Says I 'Solomon's lilies ain't in it and they was reputed well | P |
dress'd ' | K |
But not far did we wend | Q |
When we saw Pippa pass | R |
On the arm of a friend | Q |
Doctor Furnivall 'twas | S |
And he wore in his hat two half tickets for London return | T |
second class | R |
'Well ' I thought 'this is odd ' | K |
But we came pretty quick | U |
To a sort of a quad | V |
That was all of red brick | U |
And I says to the porter 'R Browning free passes and kindly | W |
look slick ' | K |
But says he dripping tears | X |
In his check handkerchief | Y |
'That symposium's career's | X |
Been regrettably brief | Z |
For it went all its pile upon crumpets and busted on | A2 |
gunpowder leaf ' | K |
Then we tucked up the sleeves | X |
Of our shirts that were biled | V |
Which the reader perceives | X |
That our feelings were riled | V |
And we went for that man till his mother had doubted the traits | X |
of her child | V |
Which emotions like these | X |
Must be freely indulged | V |
By a party who sees | X |
A Society bulged | V |
On a reef the existence of which its prospectus had never | N |
divulged | V |
But I ask Do I dream | A |
Has it gone up the spout | V |
Are things what they seem | A |
Or is Sophists about | V |
Is our 'to ti en einai' a failure or is Robert Browning played | V |
out | V |
Sir Arthur Quiller-couch
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