De Tea Fabula Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBDEDFGEHIHIJKLM LMNKIOIOPKQRQSTRKUVU WKXYXZA2KXVXVXVXVXVN VAVAVVV| Do 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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