Thoughts About The Person From Porlock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD AAAE FGAG AA AHIH JHKH LHH HMNM HOHO PQKM HRSR TQSQ HUHHVWXH| Coleridge received the Person from Porlock | A |
| And ever after called him a curse | B |
| Then why did he hurry to let him in | C |
| He could have hid in the house | D |
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| It was not right of Coleridge in fact it was wrong | A |
| But often we all do wrong | A |
| As the truth is I think he was already stuck | A |
| With Kubla Khan | E |
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| He was weeping and wailing I am finished finished | F |
| I shall never write another word of it | G |
| When along comes the Person from Porlock | A |
| And takes the blame for it | G |
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| It was not right it was wrong | A |
| But often we all do wrong | A |
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| May we inquire the name of the Person from Porlock | A |
| Why Porson didn t you know | H |
| He lived at the bottom of Porlock Hill | I |
| So had a long way to go | H |
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| He wasn t much in the social sense | J |
| Though his grandmother was a Warlock | H |
| One of the Rutlandshire ones I fancy | K |
| And nothing to do with Porlock | H |
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| And he lived at the bottom of the hill as I said | L |
| And had a cat named Flo | H |
| And had a cat named Flo | H |
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| I long for the Person from Porlock | H |
| To bring my thoughts to an end | M |
| I am becoming impatient to see him | N |
| I think of him as a friend | M |
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| Often I look out of the window | H |
| Often I run to the gate | O |
| I think He will come this evening | H |
| I think it is rather late | O |
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| I am hungry to be interrupted | P |
| For ever and ever amen | Q |
| O Person from Porlock come quickly | K |
| And bring my thoughts to an end | M |
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| I felicitate the people who have a Person from Porlock | H |
| To break up everything and throw it away | R |
| Because then there will be nothing to keep them | S |
| And they need not stay | R |
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| Why do they grumble so much | T |
| He comes like a benison | Q |
| They should be glad he has not forgotten them | S |
| They might have had to go on | Q |
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| These thoughts are depressing I know They are depressing | H |
| I wish I was more cheerful it is more pleasant | U |
| Also it is a duty we should smile as well as submitting | H |
| To the purpose of One Above who is experimenting | H |
| With various mixtures of human character which goes best | V |
| All is interesting for him it is exciting but not for us | W |
| There I go again Smile smile and get some work to do | X |
| Then you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go | H |
Stevie Smith
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