Falstaff Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJBKLMNOPQQH RQS| 'Twas in a tavern that with old age stooped | A |
| And leaned rheumatic rafters o'er his head | B |
| A blowzed prodigious man which talked and stared | C |
| And rolled as if with purpose a small eye | D |
| Like a sweet Cupid in a cask of wine | E |
| I could not view his fatness for his soul | F |
| Which peeped like harmless lightnings and was gone | G |
| As haps to voyagers of the summer air | H |
| And when he laughed Time trickled down those beams | I |
| As in a glass and when in self defence | J |
| He puffed that paunch and wagged that huge Greek head | B |
| Nosed like a Punchinello then it seemed | K |
| An hundred widows swept in his small voice | L |
| Now tenor and now bass of drummy war | M |
| He smiled compact of loam this orchard man | N |
| Mused like a midnight webbed with moonbeam snares | O |
| Of flitting Love woke and a King he stood | P |
| Whom all the world hath in sheer jest refused | Q |
| For helpless laughter's sake And then forfend | Q |
| Bacchus and Jove reared vast Olympus there | H |
| And Pan leaned leering from Promethean eyes | R |
| Lord sighed his aspect weeping o'er the jest | Q |
| What simple mouse brought such a mountain forth | S |
Walter De La Mare
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