The Force Of Argument Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF FGFG EFEF HIHI FHFH EEEE FFFF EJEJ FJFJ EFEF KLKL MNMN EFEF EEEE OFPF QPQO RFRF CSCS TETE| Lord B was a nobleman bold | A |
| Who came of illustrious stocks | B |
| He was thirty or forty years old | A |
| And several feet in his socks | B |
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| To Turniptopville by the Sea | C |
| This elegant nobleman went | D |
| For that was a borough that he | C |
| Was anxious to rep per re sent | D |
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| At local assemblies he danced | E |
| Until he felt thoroughly ill | F |
| He waltzed and he galoped and lanced | E |
| And threaded the mazy quadrille | F |
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| The maidens of Turniptopville | F |
| Were simple ingenuous pure | G |
| And they all worked away with a will | F |
| The nobleman's heart to secure | G |
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| Two maidens all others beyond | E |
| Endeavoured his cares to dispel | F |
| The one was the lively ANN POND | E |
| The other sad MARY MORELL | F |
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| ANN POND had determined to try | H |
| And carry the Earl with a rush | I |
| Her principal feature was eye | H |
| Her greatest accomplishment gush | I |
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| And MARY chose this for her play | F |
| Whenever he looked in her eye | H |
| She'd blush and turn quickly away | F |
| And flitter and flutter and sigh | H |
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| It was noticed he constantly sighed | E |
| As she worked out the scheme she had planned | E |
| A fact he endeavoured to hide | E |
| With his aristocratical hand | E |
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| Old POND was a farmer they say | F |
| And so was old TOMMY MORELL | F |
| In a humble and pottering way | F |
| They were doing exceedingly well | F |
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| They both of them carried by vote | E |
| The Earl was a dangerous man | J |
| So nervously clearing his throat | E |
| One morning old TOMMY began | J |
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| My darter's no pratty young doll | F |
| I'm a plain spoken Zommerzet man | J |
| Now what do 'ee mean by my POLL | F |
| And what do 'ee mean by his ANN | J |
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| Said B I will give you my bond | E |
| I mean them uncommonly well | F |
| Believe me my excellent POND | E |
| And credit me worthy MORELL | F |
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| It's quite indisputable for | K |
| I'll prove it with singular ease | L |
| You shall have it in 'Barbara' or | K |
| 'Celarent' whichever you please | L |
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| 'You see when an anchorite bows | M |
| To the yoke of intentional sin | N |
| If the state of the country allows | M |
| Homogeny always steps in | N |
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| It's a highly aesthetical bond | E |
| As any mere ploughboy can tell | F |
| Of course replied puzzled old POND | E |
| I see said old TOMMY MORELL | F |
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| Very good then continued the lord | E |
| When it's fooled to the top of its bent | E |
| With a sweep of a Damocles sword | E |
| The web of intention is rent | E |
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| That's patent to all of us here | O |
| As any mere schoolboy can tell | F |
| POND answered Of course it's quite clear | P |
| And so did that humbug MORELL | F |
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| Its tone's esoteric in force | Q |
| I trust that I make myself clear | P |
| MORELL only answered Of course | Q |
| While POND slowly muttered Hear hear | O |
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| Volition celestial prize | R |
| Pellucid as porphyry cell | F |
| Is based on a principle wise | R |
| Quite so exclaimed POND and MORELL | F |
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| From what I have said you will see | C |
| That I couldn't wed either in fine | S |
| By Nature's unchanging decree | C |
| YOUR daughters could never be MINE | S |
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| Go home to your pigs and your ricks | T |
| My hands of the matter I've rinsed | E |
| So they take up their hats and their sticks | T |
| And EXEUNT AMBO convinced | E |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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