Piscator And Piscatrix Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCD EEEFGGGF HHHIHHHI JKKLKKKL MMMIMMMI NNNIOOOI PPPMQQQQMAs on this pictured page I look | A |
This pretty tale of line and hook | A |
As though it were a novel book | A |
Amuses and engages | B |
I know them both the boy and girl | C |
She is the daughter of the Earl | C |
The lad that has his hair in curl | C |
My lord the County's page as | D |
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A pleasant place for such a pair | E |
The fields lie basking in the glare | E |
No breath of wind the heavy air | E |
Of lazy summer quickens | F |
Hard by you see the castle tall | G |
The village nestles round the wall | G |
As round about the hen its small | G |
Young progeny of chickens | F |
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It is too hot to pace the keep | H |
To climb the turret is too steep | H |
My lord the earl is dozing deep | H |
His noonday dinner over | I |
The postern warder is asleep | H |
Perhaps they've bribed him not to peep | H |
And so from out the gate they creep | H |
And cross the fields of clover | I |
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Their lines into the brook they launch | J |
He lays his cloak upon a branch | K |
To guarantee his Lady Blanche | K |
's delicate complexion | L |
He takes his rapier from his haunch | K |
That beardless doughty champion staunch | K |
He'd drill it through the rival's paunch | K |
That question'd his affection | L |
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O heedless pair of sportsmen slack | M |
You never mark though trout or jack | M |
Or little foolish stickleback | M |
Your baited snares may capture | I |
What care has SHE for line and hook | M |
She turns her back upon the brook | M |
Upon her lover's eyes to look | M |
In sentimental rapture | I |
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O loving pair as thus I gaze | N |
Upon the girl who smiles always | N |
The little hand that ever plays | N |
Upon the lover's shoulder | I |
In looking at your pretty shapes | O |
A sort of envious wish escapes | O |
Such as the Fox had for the Grapes | O |
The Poet your beholder | I |
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To be brave handsome twenty two | P |
With nothing else on earth to do | P |
But all day long to bill and coo | P |
It were a pleasant calling | M |
And had I such a partner sweet | Q |
A tender heart for mine to beat | Q |
A gentle hand my clasp to meet | Q |
I'd let the world flow at my feet | Q |
And never heed its brawling | M |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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