Ode To Captain Paery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCDDC EEFGGF HHIJJI KKLMML M NNOPPO QQPRRP SSPTTP QQGPPG P UUVWWV P XXYZZY P A2A2VB2B2V P C2C2D2PPP P E2E2F2DDF2 PP G2G2 PPPH2H2P PPOPPI2 IIJ2 J2 K2K2PL2L2P P PPPVVP P A2A2D2VVD2 P PPM2VVM2 P N2N2O2IIO2 P P2P2P P PPDFFD E2E2PQ2Q2P GGR2PPR2 DDPL2L2P IIJ2PPJ2 P QK2LVVL P K2K2IK2K2I P K2K2PS2S2P P K2K2R2K2K2IK2R2'By the North Pole I do challenge thee ' | A |
From 'Love's Labour's Lost ' | A |
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I | - |
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Paery my man has thy brave leg | B |
Yet struck its foot against the peg | B |
On which the world is spun | C |
Or hast thou found No Thoroughfare | D |
Writ by the hand of Nature there | D |
Where man has never run | C |
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II | - |
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Hast thou yet traced the Great Unknown | E |
Of channels in the Frozen Zone | E |
Or held at Icy Bay | F |
Hast thou still miss'd the proper track | G |
For homeward Indian men that lack | G |
A bracing by the way | F |
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III | - |
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Still hast thou wasted toil and trouble | H |
On nothing but the North Sea Bubble | H |
Of geographic scholar | I |
Or found new ways for ships to shape | J |
Instead of winding round the Cape | J |
A short cut thro' the collar | I |
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IV | - |
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Hast found the way that sighs were sent to | K |
The Pole tho' God knows whom they went to | K |
That track reveal'd to Pope | L |
Or if the Arctic waters sally | M |
Or terminate in some blind alley | M |
A chilly path to grope | L |
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V | M |
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Alas tho' Ross in love with snows | N |
Has painted them couleur de rose | N |
It is a dismal doom | O |
As Clauclio saith to Winter thrice | P |
'In regions of thick ribbed ice' | P |
All bright and yet all gloom | O |
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VI | - |
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'Tis well for Gheber souls that sit | Q |
Before the fire and worship it | Q |
With pecks of Wallsend coals | P |
With feet upon the fender's front | R |
Roasting their corns like Mr Hunt | R |
To speculate on poles | P |
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VII | - |
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'Tis easy for our Naval Board | S |
'Tis easy for our Civic Lord | S |
Of London and of ease | P |
That lies in ninety feet of down | T |
With fur on his nocturnal gown | T |
To talk of Frozen Seas | P |
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VIII | - |
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'Tis fine for Monsieur Ude to sit | Q |
And prate about the mundane spit | Q |
And babble of Cook's track | G |
He'd roast the leather off his toes | P |
Ere he would trudge thro' polar snows | P |
To plant a British Jack | G |
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IX | P |
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Oh not the proud licentious great | U |
That travel on a carpet skate | U |
Can value toils like thine | V |
What 'tis to take a Hecla range | W |
Through ice unknown to Mrs Grange | W |
And alpine lumps of brine | V |
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X | P |
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But we that mount the Hill o' Rhyme | X |
Can tell how hard it is to climb | X |
The lofty slippery steep | Y |
Ah there are more Snow Hills than that | Z |
Which doth black Newgate like a hat | Z |
Upon its forehead keep | Y |
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XI | P |
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Perchance thou'rt now while I am writing | A2 |
Feeling a bear's wet grinder biting | A2 |
About thy frozen spine | V |
Or thou thyself art eating whale | B2 |
Oily and underdone and stale | B2 |
That haply cross'd thy line | V |
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XII | P |
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But I'll not dream such dreams of ill | C2 |
Rather will I believe thee still | C2 |
Safe cellar'd in the snow | D2 |
Reciting many a gallant story | P |
Of British kings and British glory | P |
To crony Esquimaux | P |
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XIII | P |
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Cheering that dismal game where Night | E2 |
Makes one slow move from black to white | E2 |
Thro' all the tedious year | F2 |
Or smitten by some fond frost fair | D |
That comb'd out crystals from her hair | D |
Wooing a seal skin dear | F2 |
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XIV | - |
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So much a long communion tends | P |
As Byron says to make us friends | P |
With what we daily view | - |
God knows the daintiest taste may come | G2 |
To love a nose that's like a plum | G2 |
In marble cold and blue | - |
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XV | - |
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To dote on hair an oily fleece | P |
As tho' it hung from Helen o' Greece | P |
They say that love prevails | P |
Ev'n in the veriest polar land | H2 |
And surely she may steal thy hand | H2 |
That used to steal thy nails | P |
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XVI | - |
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But ah ere thou art fixed to marry | P |
And take a polar Mrs Parry | P |
Think of a six months' gloom | O |
Think of the wintry waste and hers | P |
Each furnish'd with a dozen furs | P |
Think of thine icy dome | I2 |
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XVII | - |
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Think of the children born to blubber | I |
Ah me hast thou an Indian rubber | I |
Inside to hold a meal | J2 |
For months about a stone and half | - |
Of whale and part of a sea calf | - |
A fillet of salt veal | J2 |
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XVIII | - |
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Some walrus ham no trifle but | K2 |
A decent steak a solid cut | K2 |
Of seal no wafer slice | P |
A reindeer's tongue and drink beside | L2 |
Gallons of sperm not rectified | L2 |
And pails of water ice | P |
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XIX | P |
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Oh canst thou fast and then feast thus | P |
Still come away and teach to us | P |
Those blessed alternations | P |
To day to run our dinners fine | V |
To feed on air and then to dine | V |
With Civic Corporations | P |
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XX | P |
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To save th' Old Bailey daily shilling | A2 |
And then to take a half year's filling | A2 |
In P N 's pious Row | D2 |
When ask'd to Hock and haunch o' ven'son | V |
Thro' something we have worn our pens on | V |
For Longman and his Co | D2 |
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XXI | P |
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O come and tell us what the Pole is | P |
Whether it singular and sole is | P |
Or straight or crooked bent | M2 |
If very thick or very thin | V |
Made of what wood and if akin | V |
To those there be in Kent | M2 |
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XXII | P |
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There's Combe there's Spurzheim and there's Gall | N2 |
Have talk'd of poles yet after all | N2 |
What has the public learn'd | O2 |
And Hunt's account must still defer | I |
He sought the poll at Westminster | I |
And is not yet return'd | O2 |
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XXIII | P |
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Alvanly asks if whist dear soul | P2 |
Is play'd in snow towns near the Pole | P2 |
And how the fur man deals | P |
And Eldon doubts if it be true | - |
That icy Chancellors really do | - |
Exist upon the seals | P |
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XXIV | - |
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Barrow by well fed office grates | P |
Talks of his own bechristen'd Straits | P |
And longs that he were there | D |
And Croker in his cabriolet | F |
Sighs o'er his brown horse at his Bay | F |
And pants to cross the mer | D |
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XXV | - |
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O come away and set us right | E2 |
And haply throw a northern light | E2 |
On questions such as these | P |
Whether when this drown'd world was lost | Q2 |
The surflux waves were lock'd in frost | Q2 |
And turned to Icy Seas | P |
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XXVI | - |
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Is Ursa Major white or black | G |
Or do the Polar tribes attack | G |
Their neighbors and what for | R2 |
Whether they ever play at cuffs | P |
And then if they take off their muffs | P |
In pugilistic war | R2 |
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XXVII | - |
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Tells us is Winter champion there | D |
As in our milder fighting air | D |
Say what are Chilly loans | P |
What cures they have for rheums beside | L2 |
And if their hearts get ossified | L2 |
From eating bread of bones | P |
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XXVIII | - |
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Whether they are such dwarfs the quicker | I |
To circulate the vital liquor | I |
And then from head to heel | J2 |
How short the Methodists must choose | P |
Their dumpy envoys not to lose | P |
Their toes in spite of zeal | J2 |
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XXIX | P |
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Whether 'twill soften or sublime it | Q |
To preach of Hell in such a climate | K2 |
Whether may Wesley hope | L |
To win their souls or that old function | V |
Of seals with the extreme of unction | V |
Bespeaks them for the Pope | L |
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XXX | P |
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Whether the lamps will e'er be 'learn'd' | K2 |
Where six months' 'midnight oil' is burn'd | K2 |
Or Letters must confer | I |
With people that have never conn'd | K2 |
An A B C but live beyond | K2 |
The Sound of Lancaster | I |
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XXXI | P |
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O come away at any rate | K2 |
Well hast thou earn'd a downier state | K2 |
With all thy hardy peers | P |
Good lack thou must be glad to smell dock | S2 |
And rub thy feet with opodeldock | S2 |
After such frosty years | P |
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XXXII | P |
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Mayhap some gentle dame at last | K2 |
Smit by the perils thou hast pass'd | K2 |
However coy before | R2 |
Shall bid thee now set up thy rest | K2 |
In that | K2 |
Brest Harbor | I |
woman's breast | K2 |
And tempt the Fates no more | R2 |
Thomas Hood
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