The Heavy Dragoon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABABCBDBAAEEFDEE GG BBBBCBCBEEGGFDEEGG| If you want a receipt for that popular mystery | A |
| Known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon | B |
| Take all the remarkable people in history | A |
| Rattle them off to a popular tune | B |
| The pluck of LORD NELSON on board of the VICTORY | A |
| Genius of BISMARCK devising a plan | B |
| The humour of FIELDING which sounds contradictory | A |
| Coolness of PAGET about to trepan | B |
| The grace of MOZART that unparalleled musico | C |
| Wit of MACAULAY who wrote of QUEEN ANNE | B |
| The pathos of PADDY as rendered by BOUCICAULT | D |
| Style of the BISHOP OF SODOR AND MAN | B |
| The dash of a D'ORSAY divested of quackery | A |
| Narrative powers of DICKENS and THACKERAY | A |
| VICTOR EMMANUEL peak haunting PEVERIL | E |
| THOMAS AQUINAS and DOCTOR SACHEVERELL | E |
| TUPPER and TENNYSON DANIEL DEFOE | F |
| ANTHONY TROLLOPE and MISTER GUIZOT | D |
| Take of these elements all that is fusible | E |
| Melt 'em all down in a pipkin or crucible | E |
| Set 'em to simmer and take off the scum | G |
| And a Heavy Dragoon is the residuum | G |
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| If you want a receipt for this soldierlike paragon | B |
| Get at the wealth of the CZAR if you can | B |
| The family pride of a Spaniard from Arragon | B |
| Force of MEPHISTO pronouncing a ban | B |
| A smack of LORD WATERFORD reckless and rollicky | C |
| Swagger of RODERICK heading his clan | B |
| The keen penetration of PADDINGTON POLLAKY | C |
| Grace of an Odalisque on a divan | B |
| The genius strategic of CAESAR or HANNIBAL | E |
| Skill of LORD WOLSELEY in thrashing a cannibal | E |
| Flavour of HAMLET the STRANGER a touch of him | G |
| Little of MANFRED but not very much of him | G |
| Beadle of Burlington RICHARDSON'S show | F |
| MR MICAWBER and MADAME TUSSAUD | D |
| Take of these elements all that is fusible | E |
| Melt 'em all down in a pipkin or crucible | E |
| Set 'em to simmer and take off the scum | G |
| And a Heavy Dragoon is the residuum | G |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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