The Pimlico Pavilion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD ABED ABAD ABAD ABAD BBAD FBDD ABCD GHFD BBAB IBAB FBBB ABAB FBJB BBIB AAIB JAIB| Ye pathrons of janius Minerva and Vanius | A |
| Who sit on Parnassus that mountain of snow | B |
| Descind from your station and make observation | C |
| Of the Prince's pavilion in sweet Pimlico | D |
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| This garden by jakurs is forty poor acres | A |
| The garner he tould me and sure ought to know | B |
| And yet greatly bigger in size and in figure | E |
| Than the Phanix itself seems the Park Pimlico | D |
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| O 'tis there that the spoort is when the Queen and the Court is | A |
| Walking magnanimous all of a row | B |
| Forgetful what state is among the pataties | A |
| And the pine apple gardens of sweet Pimlico | D |
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| There in blossoms odorous the birds sing a chorus | A |
| Of 'God save the Queen' as they hop to and fro | B |
| And you sit on the binches and hark to the finches | A |
| Singing melodious in sweet Pimlico | D |
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| There shuiting their phanthasies they pluck polyanthuses | A |
| That round in the gardens resplindently grow | B |
| Wid roses and jessimins and other sweet specimins | A |
| Would charm bould Linnayus in sweet Pimlico | D |
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| You see when you inther and stand in the cinther | B |
| Where the roses and necturns and collyflowers blow | B |
| A hill so tremindous it tops the top windows | A |
| Of the elegant houses of famed Pimlico | D |
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| And when you've ascinded that precipice splindid | F |
| You see on its summit a wondtherful show | B |
| A lovely Swish building all painting and gilding | D |
| The famous Pavilion of sweet Pimlico | D |
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| Prince Albert of Flandthers that Prince of Commandthers | A |
| On whom my best blessings hereby I bestow | B |
| With goold and vermilion has decked that Pavilion | C |
| Where the Queen may take tay in her sweet Pimlico | D |
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| There's lines from John Milton the chamber all gilt on | G |
| And pictures beneath them that's shaped like a bow | H |
| I was greatly astounded to think that that Roundhead | F |
| Should find an admission to famed Pimlico | D |
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| O lovely's each fresco and most picturesque O | B |
| And while round the chamber astonished I go | B |
| I think Dan Maclise's it baits all the pieces | A |
| Surrounding the cottage of famed Pimlico | B |
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| Eastlake has the chimney a good one to limn he | I |
| And a vargin he paints with a sarpent below | B |
| While bulls pigs and panthers and other enchanthers | A |
| Are painted by Landseer in sweet Pimlico | B |
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| And nature smiles opposite Stanfield he copies it | F |
| O'er Claude or Poussang sure 'tis he that may crow | B |
| But Sir Ross's best faiture is small mini ature | B |
| He shouldn't paint frescoes in famed Pimlico | B |
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| There's Leslie and Uwins has rather small doings | A |
| There's Dyce as brave masther as England can show | B |
| And the flowers and the sthrawherries sure he no dauber is | A |
| That painted the panels of famed Pimlico | B |
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| In the pictures from Walther Scott never a fault there's got | F |
| Sure the marble's as natural as thrue Scaglio | B |
| And the Chamber Pompayen is sweet to take tay in | J |
| And ait butther'd muffins in sweet Pimlico | B |
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| There's landscapes by Gruner both solar and lunar | B |
| Them two little Doyles too deserve a bravo | B |
| Wid de piece by young Townsend for janins abounds in't | I |
| And that's why he's shuited to paint Pimlico | B |
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| That picture of Severn's is worthy of rever'nce | A |
| But some I won't mintion is rather so so | A |
| For sweet philoso'phy or crumpets and coffee | I |
| O where's a Pavilion like sweet Pimlico | B |
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| O to praise this Pavilion would puzzle Quintilian | J |
| Daymosthenes Brougham or young Cicero | A |
| So heavenly Goddess d'ye pardon my modesty | I |
| And silence my lyre about sweet Pimlico | B |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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