To Mr. Dan Leno Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFBGHIJKJJLBLJMNB JJBJGJJBOBBLJLPNQBAL JBBLLLOBBJJLRNGLSATL ULLLJJQBVGJJBJJBJQJJ| On his Appearance at Sandringham | A |
| - | |
| Dear Mr Dan Leno | B |
| This has been a great week | C |
| For Art | D |
| One of the biggest weeks in fact | E |
| On record | F |
| For at the beginning of the week my dear Mr Leno | B |
| You were a mere popular entertainer | G |
| Whereas at the present moment | H |
| You are a proud and 'appy man | I |
| And in a position to walk about the Strand | J |
| With a diamond E | K |
| Scintillating in your cravat | J |
| The thing that was anticipated | J |
| By the intelligent paragraphists | L |
| My dear Mr Leno | B |
| Has come to pass | L |
| His Britannic Majesty | J |
| King Edward VII D G B et T T B R I I | M |
| Does intend to give artists and authors and people | N |
| A little bit more of a show | B |
| Than has hitherto fallen to their lot | J |
| His Majesty | J |
| My dear Mr Leno | B |
| Has always been noted for his tact | J |
| And in opening the ball with you as it were | G |
| His Majesty has exhibited an amount of tact | J |
| Which leaves absolutely nothing to be desired | J |
| Had he commenced with Mr Swinburne | B |
| Or myself | O |
| Or Mr Hall Caine | B |
| What howls there would have been | B |
| Whereas as it is | L |
| Everybody is delighted | J |
| And the Halls resound nightly with his Majesty's praises | L |
| Furthermore | P |
| Besides being tactful | N |
| The King's choice of you | Q |
| My dear Mr Leno | B |
| For an invitation to Sandringham | A |
| Has its basis in a profound common sense | L |
| For I am acquainted with nobody in the movement | J |
| My dear Mr Leno | B |
| Who could have done the Sandringham turn | B |
| With anything like the success which appears to have been yours | L |
| I gather from interviews | L |
| That the King laughed heartily at your jokes | L |
| And that it was a treat to see him enjoying himself | O |
| It is just here that Mr Swinburne myself and Mr Hall Caine | B |
| Would have broken down | B |
| It seems to me unlikely | J |
| That the King would have laughed | J |
| At Mr Swinburne's jokes | L |
| My own jokes as everybody is aware | R |
| Are constructed on a principle | N |
| Which entirely prohibits laughter | G |
| While as for Mr Hall Caine's jokes | L |
| They have such a tremendous sale | S |
| That it is not good form to laugh at them | A |
| Mr Leno my boy | T |
| You have been the humble means | L |
| Of doing us all | U |
| A great kindness | L |
| Those jokes of yours | L |
| Which have tickled Royal ears | L |
| Will be nectar to me | J |
| When next it is my pleasurable duty | J |
| To sit under you | Q |
| That hand which Royalty has shaken | B |
| I shall grasp | V |
| With an added fervour | G |
| That smile will cheer me all the more readily | J |
| Because it has cheered | J |
| My liege Lord and Sovereign | B |
| Those feet | J |
| But after all the great point | J |
| Is the scarf pin | B |
| I suppose you would not care to lend it to me | J |
| For a week or two | Q |
| While I have one made | J |
| Like it | J |
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about To Mr. Dan Leno poem by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
Best Poems of Thomas William Hodgson Crosland