The Crystal Palace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE AAGCCG BBBFFB BBABBA EEFCCF BBFHHF BBBFFB BBBIIB BBGFFG BBIBBI FFGFFC BBGBBG IIBIII FFICCI IICFFC IIIIII IIJCCJ IIIIII IIJIIJ GGCFFC IIIJKI IIIIII IIIIII IIIIII IIFIIF IIGIIGWith ganial foire | A |
Thransfuse me loyre | A |
Ye sacred nympths of Pindus | B |
The whoile I sing | C |
That wondthrous thing | C |
The Palace made o' windows | B |
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Say Paxton truth | D |
Thou wondthrous youth | D |
What sthroke of art celistial | E |
What power was lint | F |
You to invint | F |
This combineetion cristial | E |
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O would before | A |
That Thomas Moore | A |
Likewoise the late Lord Boyron | G |
Thim aigles sthrong | C |
Of godlike song | C |
Cast oi on that cast oiron | G |
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And saw thim walls | B |
And glittering halls | B |
Thim rising slendther columns | B |
Which I poor pote | F |
Could not denote | F |
No not in twinty vollums | B |
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My Muse's words | B |
Is like the bird's | B |
That roosts beneath the panes there | A |
Her wing she spoils | B |
'Gainst them bright toiles | B |
And cracks her silly brains there | A |
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This Palace tall | E |
This Cristial Hall | E |
Which Imperors might covet | F |
Stands in High Park | C |
Like Noah's Ark | C |
A rainbow bint above it | F |
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The towers and fanes | B |
In other scaynes | B |
The fame of this will undo | F |
Saint Paul's big doom | H |
Saint Payther's Room | H |
And Dublin's proud Rotundo | F |
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'Tis here that roams | B |
As well becomes | B |
Her dignitee and stations | B |
Victoria Great | F |
And houlds in state | F |
The Congress of the Nations | B |
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Her subjects pours | B |
From distant shores | B |
Her Injians and Canajians | B |
And also we | I |
Her kingdoms three | I |
Attind with our allagiance | B |
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Here come likewise | B |
Her bould allies | B |
Both Asian and Europian | G |
From East and West | F |
They send their best | F |
To fill her Coornucopean | G |
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I seen thank Grace | B |
This wonthrous place | B |
His Noble Honor Misther | I |
H Cole it was | B |
That gave the pass | B |
And let me see what is there | I |
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With conscious proide | F |
I stud insoide | F |
And look'd the World's Great Fair in | G |
Until me sight | F |
Was dazzled quite | F |
And couldn't see for staring | C |
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There's holy saints | B |
And window paints | B |
By Maydiayval Pugin | G |
Alhamborough Jones | B |
Did paint the tones | B |
Of yellow and gambouge in | G |
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There's fountains there | I |
And crosses fair | I |
There's water gods with urrns | B |
There's organs three | I |
To play d'ye see | I |
'God save the Queen ' by turrns | I |
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There's Statues bright | F |
Of marble white | F |
Of silver and of copper | I |
And some in zinc | C |
And some I think | C |
That isn't over proper | I |
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There's staym Ingynes | I |
That stands in lines | I |
Enormous and amazing | C |
That squeal and snort | F |
Like whales in sport | F |
Or elephants a grazing | C |
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There's carts and gigs | I |
And pins for pigs | I |
There's dibblers and there's harrows | I |
And ploughs like toys | I |
For little boys | I |
And ilegant wheelbarrows | I |
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For thim genteels | I |
Who ride on wheels | I |
There's plenty to indulge 'em | J |
There's Droskys snug | C |
From Paytersbug | C |
And vayhycles from Bulgium | J |
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There's Cabs on Stands | I |
And Shandthry danns | I |
There's Waggons from New York here | I |
There's Lapland Sleighs | I |
Have cross'd the seas | I |
And Jaunting Cyars from Cork here | I |
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Amazed I pass | I |
From glass to glass | I |
Deloighted I survey 'em | J |
Fresh wondthers grows | I |
Before me nose | I |
In this sublime Musayum | J |
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Look here's a fan | G |
From far Japan | G |
A sabre from Damasco | C |
There's shawls ye get | F |
From far Thibet | F |
And cotton prints from Glasgow | C |
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There's German flutes | I |
Marocky boots | I |
And Naples Macaronies | I |
Bohaymia | J |
Has sent Bohay | K |
Polonia her polonies | I |
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There's granite flints | I |
That's quite imminse | I |
There's sacks of coals and fuels | I |
There's swords and guns | I |
And soap in tuns | I |
And Gingerbread and Jewels | I |
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There's taypots there | I |
And cannons rare | I |
There's coffins fill'd with roses | I |
There's canvas tints | I |
Teeth insthrumints | I |
And shuits of clothes by MOSES | I |
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There's lashins more | I |
Of things in store | I |
But thim I don't remimber | I |
Nor could disclose | I |
Did I compose | I |
From May time to Novimber | I |
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Ah JUDY thru | I |
With eyes so blue | I |
That you were here to view it | F |
And could I screw | I |
But tu pound tu | I |
'Tis I would thrait you to it | F |
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So let us raise | I |
Victoria's praise | I |
And Albert's proud condition | G |
That takes his ayse | I |
As he surveys | I |
This Cristial Exhibition | G |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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