The Pen And The Album Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BB C CCC DD E FF C GHG III JJC KKK LLL MMM NNN OOO PPP QQQ RRE SSS TTT III UUV FFF UV| 'I am Miss Catherine's book ' the album speaks | A |
| 'I've lain among your tomes these many weeks | A |
| I'm tired of their old coats and yellow cheeks | A |
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| 'Quick Pen and write a line with a good grace | B |
| Come draw me off a funny little face | B |
| And prithee send me back to Chesham Place ' | - |
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| PEN | C |
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| 'I am my master's faithful old Gold Pen | C |
| I've served him three long years and drawn since then | C |
| Thousands of funny women and droll men | C |
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| 'O Album could I tell you all his ways | D |
| And thoughts since I am his these thousand days | D |
| Lord how your pretty pages I'd amaze ' | - |
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| ALBUM | E |
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| 'His ways his thoughts Just whisper me a few | F |
| Tell me a curious anecdote or two | F |
| And write 'em quickly off good Mordan do ' | - |
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| PEN | C |
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| 'Since he my faithful service did engage | G |
| To follow him through his queer pilgrimage | H |
| I've drawn and written many a line and page | G |
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| 'Caricatures I scribbled have and rhymes | I |
| And dinner cards and picture pantomimes | I |
| And merry little children's books at times | I |
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| 'I've writ the foolish fancy of his brain | J |
| The aimless jest that striking hath caused pain | J |
| The idle word that he'd wish back again | C |
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| 'I've help'd him to pen many a line for bread | K |
| To joke with sorrow aching in his head | K |
| And make your laughter when his own heart bled | K |
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| 'I've spoke with men of all degree and sort | L |
| Peers of the land and ladies of the Court | L |
| Oh but I've chronicled a deal of sport | L |
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| 'Feasts that were ate a thousand days ago | M |
| Biddings to wine that long hath ceased to flow | M |
| Gay meetings with good fellows long laid low | M |
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| 'Summons to bridal banquet burial ball | N |
| Tradesman's polite reminders of his small | N |
| Account due Christmas last I've answered all | N |
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| 'Poor Diddler's tenth petition for a half | O |
| Guinea Miss Bunyan's for an autograph | O |
| So I refuse accept lament or laugh | O |
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| 'Condole congratulate invite praise scoff | P |
| Day after day still dipping in my trough | P |
| And scribbling pages after pages off | P |
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| 'Day after day the labor's to be done | Q |
| And sure as comes the postman and the sun | Q |
| The indefatigable ink must run | Q |
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| 'Go back my pretty little gilded tome | R |
| To a fair mistress and a pleasant home | R |
| Where soft hearts greet us whensoe'er we come | E |
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| 'Dear friendly eyes with constant kindness lit | S |
| However rude my verse or poor my wit | S |
| Or sad or gay my mood you welcome it | S |
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| 'Kind lady till my last of lines is penn'd | T |
| My master's love grief laughter at an end | T |
| Whene'er I write your name may I write friend | T |
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| 'Not all are so that were so in past years | I |
| Voices familiar once no more he hears | I |
| Names often writ are blotted out in tears | I |
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| 'So be it joys will end and tears will dry | U |
| Album my master bids me wish good by | U |
| He'll send you to your mistress presently | V |
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| 'And thus with thankful heart he closes you | F |
| Blessing the happy hour when a friend he knew | F |
| So gentle and so generous and so true | F |
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| 'Nor pass the words as idle phrases by | U |
| Stranger I never writ a flattery | V |
| Nor sign'd the page that register'd a lie ' | - |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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