De Tea Fabula Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBDEDFGEHIHIJKLM LMNKIOIOPKQRQSTRKUVU WKXYXZA2KXVXVXVXVXVN VAVAVVV

Do I sleep Do I dreamA
Am I hoaxed by a scoutB
Are things what they seemA
Or is Sophists aboutB
Is our 'to ti en einai' a failure or is Robert Browning playedC
outB
Which expressions like theseD
May be fairly appliedE
By a party who seesD
A Society skiedF
Upon tea that the Warden of Keble had biled with legitimateG
prideE
'Twas November the thirdH
And I says to Bill NyeI
'Which it's true what I've heardH
If you're so to speak flyI
There's a chance of some tea and cheap culture the sortJ
recommended as High 'K
Which I mentioned its nameL
And he ups and remarksM
'If dress coats is the gameL
And pow wow in the ParksM
Then I 'm nuts on Sordello and Hohenstiel Schwangau and similarN
Snarks 'K
Now the pride of Bill NyeI
Cannot well be express'dO
For he wore a white tieI
And a cut away vestO
Says I 'Solomon's lilies ain't in it and they was reputed wellP
dress'd 'K
But not far did we wendQ
When we saw Pippa passR
On the arm of a friendQ
Doctor Furnivall 'twasS
And he wore in his hat two half tickets for London returnT
second classR
'Well ' I thought 'this is odd 'K
But we came pretty quickU
To a sort of a quadV
That was all of red brickU
And I says to the porter 'R Browning free passes and kindlyW
look slick 'K
But says he dripping tearsX
In his check handkerchiefY
'That symposium's career'sX
Been regrettably briefZ
For it went all its pile upon crumpets and busted onA2
gunpowder leaf 'K
Then we tucked up the sleevesX
Of our shirts that were biledV
Which the reader perceivesX
That our feelings were riledV
And we went for that man till his mother had doubted the traitsX
of her childV
Which emotions like theseX
Must be freely indulgedV
By a party who seesX
A Society bulgedV
On a reef the existence of which its prospectus had neverN
divulgedV
But I ask Do I dreamA
Has it gone up the spoutV
Are things what they seemA
Or is Sophists aboutV
Is our 'to ti en einai' a failure or is Robert Browning playedV
outV

Sir Arthur Quiller-couch



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