A Late Scene At Swanage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCD EFEF GHGH BIBI JKJK LMLM| A | |
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| regnis EX sul ademptis Verg | B |
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| To Swanage that neat little town in whose bay | C |
| Fair Thetis shows off in her best silver slippers | D |
| Lord Bags took his annual trip t'other day | C |
| To taste the sea breezes and chat with the dippers | D |
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| There learned as he is in conundrums and laws | E |
| Quoth he to his dame whom he oft plays the wag on | F |
| Why are chancery suitors like bathers Because | E |
| Their suits are put off till they haven't a rag on | F |
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| Thus on he went chatting but lo while he chats | G |
| With a face full of wonder around him he looks | H |
| For he misses his parsons his dear shovel hats | G |
| Who used to flock round him at Swanage like rooks | H |
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| How is this Lady Bags to this region aquatic | B |
| Last year they came swarming to make me their bow | I |
| As thick as Burke's cloud o'er the vales of Carnatic | B |
| Deans Rectors D D 's where the devil are they now | I |
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| My dearest Lord Bags saith his dame can you doubt | J |
| I am loath to remind you of things so unpleasant | K |
| But don't you perceive dear the Church have found out | J |
| That you're one of the people called Ex's at present | K |
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| Ah true you have hit it I am indeed one | L |
| Of those ill fated Ex's his Lordship replies | M |
| And with tears I confess God forgive me the pun | L |
| We X's have proved ourselves not to be Y's | M |
Thomas Moore
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