A Parthian Glance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CACA DEDE AFAF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QRQR STST UVUV WXWX YZYZ A2CA2C| Sweet Memory wafted by thy gentle gale | A |
| Oft up the stream of time I turn my sail ROGERS | B |
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| Come my Crony let's think upon far away days | C |
| And lift up a little Oblivion's veil | A |
| Let's consider the past with a lingering gaze | C |
| Like a peacock whose eyes are inclined to his tail | A |
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| Aye come let us turn our attention behind | D |
| Like those critics whose heads are so heavy I fear | E |
| That they cannot keep up with the march of the mind | D |
| And so turn face about for reviewing the rear | E |
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| Looking over Time's crupper and over his tail | A |
| Oh what ages and pages there are to revise | F |
| And as farther our back searching glances prevail | A |
| Like the emmets how little we are in our eyes | F |
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| What a sweet pretty innocent half a yard long | G |
| On a dimity lap of true nursery make | H |
| I can fancy I hear the old lullaby song | G |
| That was meant to compose me but kept me awake | H |
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| Methinks I still suffer the infantine throes | I |
| When my flesh was a cushion for any long pin | J |
| Whilst they patted my body to comfort my woes | I |
| Oh how little they dreamt they were driving them in | J |
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| Infant sorrows are strong infant pleasures as weak | K |
| But no grief was allow'd to indulge in its note | L |
| Did you ever attempt a small bubble and squeak | K |
| Through the Dalby's Carminative down in your throat | L |
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| Did you ever go up to the roof with a bounce | M |
| Did you ever come down to the floor with the same | N |
| Oh I can't but agree with bath ends and pronounce | M |
| Heads or tails with a child an unpleasantish game | N |
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| Then an urchin I see myself urchin indeed | O |
| With a smooth Sunday face for a mother's delight | P |
| Why should weeks have an end I am sure there was need | O |
| Of a Sabbath to follow each Saturday night | P |
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| Was your face ever sent to the housemaid to scrub | Q |
| Have you ever felt huckaback soften'd with sand | R |
| Had you ever your nose towell'd up to a snub | Q |
| And your eyes knuckled out with the back of the hand | R |
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| Then a school boy my tailor was nothing in fault | S |
| For an urchin will grow to a lad by degrees | T |
| But how well I remember that pepper and salt | S |
| That was down to the elbows and up to the knees | T |
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| What a figure it cut when as Norval I spoke | U |
| With a lanky right leg duly planted before | V |
| Whilst I told of the chief that was kill'd by my stroke | U |
| And extended my arms as the arms that he wore | V |
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| Next a Lover Oh say were you ever in love | W |
| With a lady too cold and your bosom too hot | X |
| Have you bow'd to a shoe tie and knelt to a glove | W |
| Like a beau that desired to be tied in a knot | X |
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| With the Bride all in white and your body in blue | Y |
| Did you walk up the aisle the genteelest of men | Z |
| When I think of that beautiful vision anew | Y |
| Oh I seem but the biffin of what I was then | Z |
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| I am withered and worn by a premature care | A2 |
| And wrinkles confess the decline of my days | C |
| Old Time's busy hand has made free with my hair | A2 |
| And I'm seeking to hide it by writing for bays | C |
Thomas Hood
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