To A Publisher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEEFGAHIDJDAKALM NODNMDOAGPQOAENARFOS OOTNNUOVWOXDDAYZA2B2 C2D2OOOE2C2KF2AG2H2A OI2J2K2L2M2OOZO

My dear SirA
In the whole roundB
Of animated natureA
I am acquaintedC
With nothing or nobodyD
Who is generally speakingE
So gay gaudy and interestingE
As yourselfF
From my youth upG
I have been taught to look upon a publisherA
As a very great person indeedH
When I was young and courted himI
He it was drew from meD
As morn from MemnonJ
Rivers of melodyD
The which howeverA
He took good careK
Not to glorify with his imprimaturA
In those daysL
I looked upon publishing as a tradeM
And poetry as a professionN
Recently I have become wiseO
And I feel in the heart of meD
That publishing is a professionN
And poetry a tradeM
In spite of all that has been said to the contraryD
BarabbasO
Certainly was not a publisherA
I have not had time to look him upG
But I feel quite sureP
That he was not a professional manQ
BesidesO
If he was a publisherA
Why did he not publish somethingE
Echo and the Publishers' AssociationN
No doubt answerA
WhyR
I sometimes think I should like to be a publisher myselfF
It must be rather niceO
To know for a factS
How many copiesO
Mr So and so and Mr So and so and Mr So and soO
Really do sellT
And how many A second large editionN
And Tenth impressionN
Really meanU
It must be rather nice alsoO
To go off to Switzerland every yearV
With your wifeW
To attend the Publishers' ConferenceO
It must be rather nice tooX
To know of a suretyD
That when an author is making moneyD
Some publisher or otherA
Is making just as muchY
And not infrequently a trifle moreZ
On the same workA2
We have learnt of lateB2
Greatly to our disgustC2
That when a publisher dies richD2
He has made his money out of ApollinarisO
This is hard on authorsO
Who between ourselvesO
Are not by any means bad peopleE2
And invariably take a kindly interestC2
In their publishers' welfareK
On the other handF2
You must admit sirA
That a publisher seldom goes bankruptG2
And does not as a rule sleepH2
Under his own counterA
OnceO
I lent a publisher half a crownI2
He paid it backJ2
The average author would have taken itK2
As money earnedL2
So that on the wholeM2
I am inclined to like publishersO
And to set them down in my tabletsO
ForZ
Useful personsO

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland



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