The Duke And The Duchess Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCCCDDEBBE F CCCGGCBBHIIF A FFJFFJIIJCCJ F CCGIIGCCCIIC A FFCDDCJJFGGF| THE DUKE | A |
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| Small titles and orders | B |
| For Mayors and Recorders | B |
| I get and they're highly delighted | C |
| M P s baronetted | C |
| Sham Colonels gazetted | C |
| And second rate Aldermen knighted | C |
| Foundation stone laying | D |
| I find very paying | D |
| It adds a large sum to my makings | E |
| At charity dinners | B |
| The best of speech spinners | B |
| I get ten per cent on the takings | E |
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| THE DUCHESS | F |
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| I present any lady | C |
| Whose conduct is shady | C |
| Or smacking of doubtful propriety | C |
| When Virtue would quash her | G |
| I take and whitewash her | G |
| And launch her in first rate society | C |
| I recommend acres | B |
| Of clumsy dressmakers | B |
| Their fit and their finishing touches | H |
| A sum in addition | I |
| They pay for permission | I |
| To say that they make for the Duchess | F |
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| THE DUKE | A |
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| Those pressing prevailers | F |
| The ready made tailors | F |
| Quote me as their great double barrel | J |
| I allow them to do so | F |
| Though ROBINSON CRUSOE | F |
| Would jib at their wearing apparel | J |
| I sit by selection | I |
| Upon the direction | I |
| Of several Companies bubble | J |
| As soon as they're floated | C |
| I'm freely bank noted | C |
| I'm pretty well paid for my trouble | J |
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| THE DUCHESS | F |
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| At middle class party | C |
| I play at ECARTE | C |
| And I'm by no means a beginner | G |
| To one of my station | I |
| The remuneration | I |
| Five guineas a night and my dinner | G |
| I write letters blatant | C |
| On medicines patent | C |
| And use any other you mustn't | C |
| And vow my complexion | I |
| Derives its perfection | I |
| From somebody's soap which it doesn't | C |
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| THE DUKE | A |
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| We're ready as witness | F |
| To any one's fitness | F |
| To fill any place or preferment | C |
| We're often in waiting | D |
| At junket FETING | D |
| And sometimes attend an interment | C |
| In short if you'd kindle | J |
| The spark of a swindle | J |
| Lure simpletons into your clutches | F |
| Or hoodwink a debtor | G |
| You cannot do better | G |
| Than trot out a Duke or a Duchess | F |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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