The Fairy Curate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDAEEA FFAFFAAAGEEG HHCDDCDDGGGG IIFDDFDDFGGF CCGGGGCCJCCJ GGKGGKBBKCCK GGIGGIEEDDDD GGDIIDDDGHHG DDDKKDKKKKKK GGDGGDLLDKKD DDDGGDCCGHMG CCGCCGCCGGGG CCCGGCEENIII| Once a fairy | A |
| Light and airy | A |
| Married with a mortal | B |
| Men however | C |
| Never never | C |
| Pass the fairy portal | B |
| Slyly stealing | D |
| She to Ealing | D |
| Made a daily journey | A |
| There she found him | E |
| Clients round him | E |
| He was an attorney | A |
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| Long they tarried | F |
| Then they married | F |
| When the ceremony | A |
| Once was ended | F |
| Off they wended | F |
| On their moon of honey | A |
| Twelvemonth maybe | A |
| Saw a baby | A |
| Friends performed an orgie | G |
| Much they prized him | E |
| And baptized him | E |
| By the name of GEORGIE | G |
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| GEORGIE grew up | H |
| Then he flew up | H |
| To his fairy mother | C |
| Happy meeting | D |
| Pleasant greeting | D |
| Kissing one another | C |
| Choose a calling | D |
| Most enthralling | D |
| I sincerely urge ye | G |
| Mother said he | G |
| Rev'rence made he | G |
| I would join the clergy | G |
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| Give permission | I |
| In addition | I |
| Pa will let me do it | F |
| There's a living | D |
| In his giving | D |
| He'll appoint me to it | F |
| Dreams of coff'ring | D |
| Easter off'ring | D |
| Tithe and rent and pew rate | F |
| So inflame me | G |
| Do not blame me | G |
| That I'll be a curate | F |
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| She with pleasure | C |
| Said My treasure | C |
| 'T is my wish precisely | G |
| Do your duty | G |
| There's a beauty | G |
| You have chosen wisely | G |
| Tell your father | C |
| I would rather | C |
| As a churchman rank you | J |
| You in clover | C |
| I'll watch over | C |
| GEORGIE said Oh thank you | J |
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| GEORGIE scudded | G |
| Went and studied | G |
| Made all preparations | K |
| And with credit | G |
| Though he said it | G |
| Passed examinations | K |
| Do not quarrel | B |
| With him moral | B |
| Scrupulous digestions | K |
| 'Twas his mother | C |
| And no other | C |
| Answered all the questions | K |
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| Time proceeded | G |
| Little needed | G |
| GEORGIE admonition | I |
| He elated | G |
| Vindicated | G |
| Clergyman's position | I |
| People round him | E |
| Always found him | E |
| Plain and unpretending | D |
| Kindly teaching | D |
| Plainly preaching | D |
| All his money lending | D |
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| So the fairy | G |
| Wise and wary | G |
| Felt no sorrow rising | D |
| No occasion | I |
| For persuasion | I |
| Warning or advising | D |
| He resuming | D |
| Fairy pluming | D |
| That's not English is it | G |
| Oft would fly up | H |
| To the sky up | H |
| Pay mamma a visit | G |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | |
| Time progressing | D |
| GEORGIE'S blessing | D |
| Grew more Ritualistic | D |
| Popish scandals | K |
| Tonsures sandals | K |
| Genuflections mystic | D |
| Gushing meetings | K |
| Bosom beatings | K |
| Heavenly ecstatics | K |
| Broidered spencers | K |
| Copes and censers | K |
| Rochets and dalmatics | K |
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| This quandary | G |
| Vexed the fairy | G |
| Flew she down to Ealing | D |
| GEORGIE stop it | G |
| Pray you drop it | G |
| Hark to my appealing | D |
| To this foolish | L |
| Papal rule ish | L |
| Twaddle put an ending | D |
| This a swerve is | K |
| From our Service | K |
| Plain and unpretending | D |
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| He replying | D |
| Answered sighing | D |
| Hawing hemming humming | D |
| It's a pity | G |
| They're so pritty | G |
| Yet in mode becoming | D |
| Mother tender | C |
| I'll surrender | C |
| I'll be unaffected | G |
| But his Bishop | H |
| Into HIS shop | M |
| Entered unexpected | G |
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| Who is this sir | C |
| Ballet miss sir | C |
| Said the Bishop coldly | G |
| 'T is my mother | C |
| And no other | C |
| GEORGIE answered boldly | G |
| Go along sir | C |
| You are wrong sir | C |
| You have years in plenty | G |
| While this hussy | G |
| Gracious mussy | G |
| Isn't two and twenty | G |
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| Fairies clever | C |
| Never never | C |
| Grow in visage older | C |
| And the fairy | G |
| All unwary | G |
| Leant upon his shoulder | C |
| Bishop grieved him | E |
| Disbelieved him | E |
| GEORGE the point grew warm on | N |
| Changed religion | I |
| Like a pigeon | I |
| And became a Mormon | I |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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