London Types - Iv. Beef-eater Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFGHGHII| His beat lies knee high through a dust of story | A |
| A dust of terror and torture grief and crime | B |
| Ghosts that are ENGLAND'S wonder and shame and glory | A |
| Throng where he walks an antic of old time | B |
| A sense of long immedicable tears | C |
| Were ever with him could his ears but heed | D |
| The stern Hic Jacets of our bloodiest years | E |
| Are for his reading had he eyes to read | F |
| But here where CROOKBACK raged and CRANMER trimmed | G |
| And MORE and STRAFFORD faced the axe's proving | H |
| He shows that Crown the desperate Colonel nimmed | G |
| Or simply keeps the Country Cousin moving | H |
| Or stays such Cockney pencillers as would shame | I |
| The wall where some dead Queen hath traced her name | I |
William Ernest Henley
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