Sir Macklin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JHJH KFKF LF LM NDND OHOH HIHI LPLP HIHI LPLP QRQR QQQQ QDQDOf all the youths I ever saw | A |
None were so wicked vain or silly | B |
So lost to shame and Sabbath law | A |
As worldly TOM and BOB and BILLY | B |
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For every Sabbath day they walked | C |
Such was their gay and thoughtless nature | D |
In parks or gardens where they talked | C |
From three to six or even later | D |
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SIR MACKLIN was a priest severe | E |
In conduct and in conversation | F |
It did a sinner good to hear | G |
Him deal in ratiocination | F |
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He could in every action show | H |
Some sin and nobody could doubt him | I |
He argued high he argued low | H |
He also argued round about him | I |
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He wept to think each thoughtless youth | J |
Contained of wickedness a skinful | H |
And burnt to teach the awful truth | J |
That walking out on Sunday's sinful | H |
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Oh youths said he I grieve to find | K |
The course of life you've been and hit on | F |
Sit down said he and never mind | K |
The pennies for the chairs you sit on | F |
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My opening head is 'Kensington ' | - |
How walking there the sinner hardens | L |
Which when I have enlarged upon | F |
I go to 'Secondly' its 'Gardens ' | - |
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My 'Thirdly' comprehendeth 'Hyde ' | - |
Of Secresy the guilts and shameses | L |
My 'Fourthly' 'Park' its verdure wide | M |
My 'Fifthly' comprehends 'St James's ' | - |
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That matter settled I shall reach | N |
The 'Sixthly' in my solemn tether | D |
And show that what is true of each | N |
Is also true of all together | D |
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Then I shall demonstrate to you | O |
According to the rules of WHATELY | H |
That what is true of all is true | O |
Of each considered separately | H |
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In lavish stream his accents flow | H |
TOM BOB and BILLY dare not flout him | I |
He argued high he argued low | H |
He also argued round about him | I |
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Ha ha he said you loathe your ways | L |
You writhe at these my words of warning | P |
In agony your hands you raise | L |
And so they did for they were yawning | P |
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To Twenty firstly on they go | H |
The lads do not attempt to scout him | I |
He argued high he argued low | H |
He also argued round about him | I |
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Ho ho he cries you bow your crests | L |
My eloquence has set you weeping | P |
In shame you bend upon your breasts | L |
And so they did for they were sleeping | P |
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He proved them this he proved them that | Q |
This good but wearisome ascetic | R |
He jumped and thumped upon his hat | Q |
He was so very energetic | R |
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His Bishop at this moment chanced | Q |
To pass and found the road encumbered | Q |
He noticed how the Churchman danced | Q |
And how his congregation slumbered | Q |
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The hundred and eleventh head | Q |
The priest completed of his stricture | D |
Oh bosh the worthy Bishop said | Q |
And walked him off as in the picture | D |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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