A Dream Of Turtle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGEEEEGGHH IJIJGGKKLGLGEEMMGGEE GNGBY SIR W CURTIS | A |
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'Twas evening time in the twilight sweet | B |
I sailed along when whom should I meet | B |
But a Turtle journeying o'er the sea | C |
On the service of his Majesty | C |
When spying him first thro' twilight dim | D |
I didn't know what to make of him | D |
But said to myself as slow he plied | E |
His fins and rolled from side to side | E |
Conceitedly o'er the watery path | F |
'Tis my Lord of Stowell taking a bath | F |
And I hear him now among the fishes | G |
Quoting Vatel and Burgersdicius | G |
But no 'twas indeed a Turtle wide | E |
And plump as ever these eyes descried | E |
A turtle juicy as ever yet | E |
Glued up the lips of a Baronet | E |
And much did it grieve my soul to see | G |
That an animal of such dignity | G |
Like an absentee abroad should roam | H |
When he ought to stay and be ate at home | H |
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But now a change came o'er my dream | I |
Like the magic lantern's shifting slider | J |
I lookt and saw by the evening beam | I |
On the back of that Turtle sat a rider | J |
A goodly man with an eye so merry | G |
I knew 'twas our Foreign Secretary | G |
Who there at his ease did sit and smile | K |
Like Waterton on his crocodile | K |
Cracking such jokes at every motion | L |
As made the Turtle squeak with glee | G |
And own they gave him a lively notion | L |
Of what his forced meat balls would be | G |
So on the Sec in his glory went | E |
Over that briny element | E |
Waving his hand as he took farewell | M |
With graceful air and bidding me tell | M |
Inquiring friends that the Turtle and he | G |
Were gone on a foreign embassy | G |
To soften the heart of a Diplomat | E |
Who is known to dote upon verdant fat | E |
And to let admiring Europe see | G |
That calipash and calipee | N |
Are the English forms of Diplomacy | G |
Thomas Moore
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