The Aesthete Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGGHIH JGKGBLMLGGHIH NLOLPQNQGGRHAH| If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man | A |
| of culture rare | B |
| You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms and | C |
| plant them everywhere | B |
| You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of | D |
| your complicated state of mind | E |
| The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a | F |
| transcendental kind | E |
| And every one will say | G |
| As you walk your mystic way | G |
| If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for ME | H |
| Why what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must | I |
| be | H |
| - | |
| Be eloquent in praise of the very dull old days which have long | J |
| since passed away | G |
| And convince 'em if you can that the reign of good QUEEN ANNE was | K |
| Culture's palmiest day | G |
| Of course you will pooh pooh whatever's fresh and new and declare | B |
| it's crude and mean | L |
| And that Art stopped short in the cultivated court of the EMPRESS | M |
| JOSEPHINE | L |
| And every one will say | G |
| As you walk your mystic way | G |
| If that's not good enough for him which is good enough for ME | H |
| Why what a very cultivated kind of youth this kind of youth must | I |
| be | H |
| - | |
| Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your | N |
| languid spleen | L |
| An attachment E LA Plato for a bashful young potato or a not too | O |
| French French bean | L |
| Though the Philistines may jostle you will rank as an apostle in | P |
| the high aesthetic band | Q |
| If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your | N |
| mediaeval hand | Q |
| And every one will say | G |
| As you walk your flowery way | G |
| If he's content with a vegetable love which would certainly not | R |
| suit ME | H |
| Why what a most particularly pure young man this pure young man | A |
| must be | H |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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