To A Publisher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEEFGAHIDJDAKALM NODNMDOAGPQOAENARFOS OOTNNUOVWOXDDAYZA2B2 C2D2OOOE2C2KF2AG2H2A OI2J2K2L2M2OOZOMy dear Sir | A |
In the whole round | B |
Of animated nature | A |
I am acquainted | C |
With nothing or nobody | D |
Who is generally speaking | E |
So gay gaudy and interesting | E |
As yourself | F |
From my youth up | G |
I have been taught to look upon a publisher | A |
As a very great person indeed | H |
When I was young and courted him | I |
He it was drew from me | D |
As morn from Memnon | J |
Rivers of melody | D |
The which however | A |
He took good care | K |
Not to glorify with his imprimatur | A |
In those days | L |
I looked upon publishing as a trade | M |
And poetry as a profession | N |
Recently I have become wise | O |
And I feel in the heart of me | D |
That publishing is a profession | N |
And poetry a trade | M |
In spite of all that has been said to the contrary | D |
Barabbas | O |
Certainly was not a publisher | A |
I have not had time to look him up | G |
But I feel quite sure | P |
That he was not a professional man | Q |
Besides | O |
If he was a publisher | A |
Why did he not publish something | E |
Echo and the Publishers' Association | N |
No doubt answer | A |
Why | R |
I sometimes think I should like to be a publisher myself | F |
It must be rather nice | O |
To know for a fact | S |
How many copies | O |
Mr So and so and Mr So and so and Mr So and so | O |
Really do sell | T |
And how many A second large edition | N |
And Tenth impression | N |
Really mean | U |
It must be rather nice also | O |
To go off to Switzerland every year | V |
With your wife | W |
To attend the Publishers' Conference | O |
It must be rather nice too | X |
To know of a surety | D |
That when an author is making money | D |
Some publisher or other | A |
Is making just as much | Y |
And not infrequently a trifle more | Z |
On the same work | A2 |
We have learnt of late | B2 |
Greatly to our disgust | C2 |
That when a publisher dies rich | D2 |
He has made his money out of Apollinaris | O |
This is hard on authors | O |
Who between ourselves | O |
Are not by any means bad people | E2 |
And invariably take a kindly interest | C2 |
In their publishers' welfare | K |
On the other hand | F2 |
You must admit sir | A |
That a publisher seldom goes bankrupt | G2 |
And does not as a rule sleep | H2 |
Under his own counter | A |
Once | O |
I lent a publisher half a crown | I2 |
He paid it back | J2 |
The average author would have taken it | K2 |
As money earned | L2 |
So that on the whole | M2 |
I am inclined to like publishers | O |
And to set them down in my tablets | O |
For | Z |
Useful persons | O |
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
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