Tempora Mutantur Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAAB BCBBC DEFFFE GHHHHH HIHHHI BHBBBH JBFFFB BKBBBK LILLLI| Letters letters letters letters | A |
| Some that please and some that bore | B |
| Some that threaten prison fetters | A |
| Metaphorically fetters | A |
| Such as bind insolvent debtors | A |
| Invitations by the score | B |
| - | |
| One from COGSON WILES and RAILER | B |
| My attorneys off the Strand | C |
| One from COPPERBLOCK my tailor | B |
| My unreasonable tailor | B |
| One in FLAGG'S disgusting hand | C |
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| One from EPHRAIM and MOSES | D |
| Wanting coin without a doubt | E |
| I should like to pull their noses | F |
| Their uncompromising noses | F |
| One from ALICE with the roses | F |
| Ah I know what that's about | E |
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| Time was when I waited waited | G |
| For the missives that she wrote | H |
| Humble postmen execrated | H |
| Loudly deeply execrated | H |
| When I heard I wasn't fated | H |
| To be gladdened with a note | H |
| - | |
| Time was when I'd not have bartered | H |
| Of her little pen a dip | I |
| For a peerage duly gartered | H |
| For a peerage starred and gartered | H |
| With a palace office chartered | H |
| Or a Secretaryship | I |
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| But the time for that is over | B |
| And I wish we'd never met | H |
| I'm afraid I've proved a rover | B |
| I'm afraid a heartless rover | B |
| Quarters in a place like Dover | B |
| Tend to make a man forget | H |
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| Bills for carriages and horses | J |
| Bills for wine and light cigar | B |
| Matters that concern the Forces | F |
| News that may affect the Forces | F |
| News affecting my resources | F |
| Much more interesting are | B |
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| And the tiny little paper | B |
| With the words that seem to run | K |
| From her little fingers taper | B |
| They are very small and taper | B |
| By the tailor and the draper | B |
| Are in interest outdone | K |
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| And unopened it's remaining | L |
| I can read her gentle hope | I |
| Her entreaties uncomplaining | L |
| She was always uncomplaining | L |
| Her devotion never waning | L |
| Through the little envelope | I |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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