The ësthete Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD CCEECCDD EEFFCCDD| If you're anxious for to shine in the high sthetic line as a man of culture rare | A |
| You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms and plant them everywhere | A |
| You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your complicated state of mind | B |
| The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind | B |
| And everyone will say | C |
| As you walk your mystic way | C |
| If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me | D |
| Why what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be | D |
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| Be eloquent in praise of the very dull old days which have long since passed away | C |
| And convince 'em if you can that the reign of good Queen Anne was Culture's palmiest day | C |
| Of course you will pooh pooh whatever's fresh and new and declare it's crude and mean | E |
| And that art stopped short in the cultivated court of the Empress Josephine | E |
| And everyone will say | C |
| As you walk your mystic way | C |
| If that's not good enough for him which is good enough for me | D |
| Why what a very cultivated kind of youth this kind of youth must be | D |
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| Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen | E |
| An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato or a not too French French bean | E |
| Though the Philistines may jostle you will rank as an apostle in the high sthetic band | F |
| If you walk down Picadilly with a poppy or a lily in your medi val hand | F |
| And everyone will say | C |
| As you walk your flowery way | C |
| If he's content with a vegetable love which would certainly not suit me | D |
| Why what a most particularly pure young man this pure young man must be | D |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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