Poetry Everywhere Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDECCE FFBGGB| What time the poet hath hymned | A |
| The writhing maid lithe limbed | A |
| Quivering on amaranthine asphodel | B |
| How can he paint her woes | C |
| Knowing as well he knows | C |
| That all can be set right with calomel | B |
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| When from the poet's plinth | D |
| The amorous colocynth | D |
| Yearns for the aloe faint with rapturous thrills | E |
| How can he hymn their throes | C |
| Knowing as well he knows | C |
| That they are only uncompounded pills | E |
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| Is it and can it be | F |
| Nature hath this decree | F |
| Nothing poetic in the world shall dwell | B |
| Or that in all her works | G |
| Something poetic lurks | G |
| Even in colocynth and calomel | B |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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