Gregory Parable, Ll.d. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEFGHDIIGJKAALL MMAALL LLNNKKDDLLOOKKPPQQLL RRKKSS TSKLLKASUKKAAVWK XXMMYYAAKKMMXXAAAAXX AADDZZA2A2AA AAMMB2B2AA XXAA AAC2C2KKBBA leafy cot where no dry rot | A |
Had ever been by tenant seen | B |
Where ivy clung and wopses stung | C |
Where beeses hummed and drummed and strummed | A |
Where treeses grew and breezes blew | D |
A thatchy roof quite waterproof | E |
Where countless herds of dicky birds | F |
Built twiggy beds to lay their heads | G |
My mother begs I'll make it eggs | H |
But though it's true that dickies do | D |
Construct a nest with chirpy noise | I |
With view to rest their eggy joys | I |
'Neath eavy sheds yet eggs and beds | G |
As I explain to her in vain | J |
Five hundred times are faulty rhymes | K |
'Neath such a cot built on a plot | A |
Of freehold land dwelt MARY and | A |
Her worthy father named by me | L |
GREGORY PARABLE LL D | L |
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He knew no guile this simple man | M |
No worldly wile or plot or plan | M |
Except that plot of freehold land | A |
That held the cot and MARY and | A |
Her worthy father named by me | L |
GREGORY PARABLE LL D | L |
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A grave and learned scholar he | L |
Yet simple as a child could be | L |
He'd shirk his meal to sit and cram | N |
A goodish deal of Eton Gram | N |
No man alive could him nonplus | K |
With vocative of FILIUS | K |
No man alive more fully knew | D |
The passive of a verb or two | D |
None better knew the worth than he | L |
Of words that end in B D T | L |
Upon his green in early spring | O |
He might be seen endeavouring | O |
To understand the hooks and crooks | K |
Of HENRY and his Latin books | K |
Or calling for his Caesar on | P |
The Gallic War like any don | P |
Or p'raps expounding unto all | Q |
How mythic BALBUS built a wall | Q |
So lived the sage who's named by me | L |
GREGORY PARABLE LL D | L |
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To him one autumn day there came | R |
A lovely youth of mystic name | R |
He took a lodging in the house | K |
And fell a dodging snipe and grouse | K |
For oh that mild scholastic one | S |
Let shooting for a single gun | S |
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By three or four when sport was o'er | T |
The Mystic One laid by his gun | S |
And made sheep's eyes of giant size | K |
Till after tea at MARY P | L |
And MARY P so kind was she | L |
She too made eyes of giant size | K |
Whose every dart right through the heart | A |
Appeared to run that Mystic One | S |
The Doctor's whim engrossing him | U |
He did not know they flirted so | K |
For save at tea MUSA MUSAE | K |
As I'm advised monopolised | A |
And rendered blind his giant mind | A |
But looking up above his cup | V |
One afternoon he saw them spoon | W |
Aha quoth he you naughty lass | K |
As quaint old OVID says 'Amas ' | - |
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The Mystic Youth avowed the truth | X |
And claiming ruth he said In sooth | X |
I love your daughter aged man | M |
Refuse to join us if you can | M |
Treat not my offer sir with scorn | Y |
I'm wealthy though I'm lowly born | Y |
Young sir the aged scholar said | A |
I never thought you meant to wed | A |
Engrossed completely with my books | K |
I little noticed lovers' looks | K |
I've lived so long away from man | M |
I do not know of any plan | M |
By which to test a lover's worth | X |
Except perhaps the test of birth | X |
I've half forgotten in this wild | A |
A father's duty to his child | A |
It is his place I think it's said | A |
To see his daughters richly wed | A |
To dignitaries of the earth | X |
If possible of noble birth | X |
If noble birth is not at hand | A |
A father may I understand | A |
And this affords a chance for you | D |
Be satisfied to wed her to | D |
A BOUCICAULT or BARING which | Z |
Means any one who's very rich | Z |
Now there's an Earl who lives hard by | A2 |
My child and I will go and try | A2 |
If he will make the maid his bride | A |
If not to you she shall be tied | A |
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They sought the Earl that very day | A |
The Sage began to say his say | A |
The Earl a very wicked man | M |
Whose face bore Vice's blackest ban | M |
Cut short the scholar's simple tale | B2 |
And said in voice to make them quail | B2 |
Pooh go along you're drunk no doubt | A |
Here PETERS turn these people out | A |
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The Sage rebuffed in mode uncouth | X |
Returning met the Mystic Youth | X |
My darling boy the Scholar said | A |
Take MARY blessings on your head | A |
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The Mystic Boy undid his vest | A |
And took a parchment from his breast | A |
And said Now by that noble brow | C2 |
I ne'er knew father such as thou | C2 |
The sterling rule of common sense | K |
Now reaps its proper recompense | K |
Rejoice my soul's unequalled Queen | B |
For I am DUKE OF GRETNA GREEN | B |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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