The Ape And The Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEEDD FFGGCCHIIHH JJKKCCLMMLL| A LADY fair of lineage high | A |
| Was loved by an Ape in the days gone by | A |
| The Maid was radiant as the sun | B |
| The Ape was a most unsightly one | B |
| So it would not do | C |
| His scheme fell through | C |
| For the Maid when his love took formal shape | D |
| Expressed such terror | E |
| At his monstrous error | E |
| That he stammered an apology and made his 'scape | D |
| The picture of a disconcerted Ape | D |
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| With a view to rise in the social scale | F |
| He shaved his bristles and he docked his tail | F |
| He grew moustachios and he took his tub | G |
| And he paid a guinea to a toilet club | G |
| But it would not do | C |
| The scheme fell through | C |
| For the Maid was Beauty's fairest Queen | H |
| With golden tresses | I |
| Like a real princess's | I |
| While the Ape despite his razor keen | H |
| Was the apiest Ape that ever was seen | H |
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| He bought white ties and he bought dress suits | J |
| He crammed his feet into bright tight boots | J |
| And to start his life on a brand new plan | K |
| He christened himself Darwinian Man | K |
| But it would not do | C |
| The scheme fell through | C |
| For the Maiden fair whom the monkey craved | L |
| Was a radiant Being | M |
| With a brain far seeing | M |
| While a Man however well behaved | L |
| At best is only a monkey shaved | L |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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