The Highly Respectable Gondolier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCB DCDDC CECCCE DCDDC CBCCCB DCDDC CFCCCF DCDDCI stole the Prince and I brought him here | A |
And left him gaily prattling | B |
With a highly respectable Gondolier | C |
Who promised the Royal babe to rear | C |
And teach him the trade of a timoneer | C |
With his own beloved bratling | B |
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Both of the babes were strong and stout | D |
And considering all things clever | C |
Of that there is no manner of doubt | D |
No probable possible shadow of doubt | D |
No possible doubt whatever | C |
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Time sped and when at the end of a year | C |
I sought that infant cherished | E |
That highly respectable Gondolier | C |
Was lying a corpse on his humble bier | C |
I dropped a Grand Inquisitor's tear | C |
That Gondolier had perished | E |
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A taste for drink combined with gout | D |
Had doubled him up for ever | C |
Of THAT there is no manner of doubt | D |
No probable possible shadow of doubt | D |
No possible doubt whatever | C |
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But owing I'm much disposed to fear | C |
To his terrible taste for tippling | B |
That highly respectable Gondolier | C |
Could never declare with a mind sincere | C |
Which of the two was his offspring dear | C |
And which the Royal stripling | B |
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Which was which he could never make out | D |
Despite his best endeavour | C |
Of THAT there is no manner of doubt | D |
No probable possible shadow of doubt | D |
No possible doubt whatever | C |
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The children followed his old career | C |
This statement can't be parried | F |
Of a highly respectable Gondolier | C |
Well one of the two who will soon be here | C |
But WHICH of the two is not quite clear | C |
Is the Royal Prince you married | F |
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Search in and out and round about | D |
And you'll discover never | C |
A tale so free from every doubt | D |
All probable possible shadow of doubt | D |
All possible doubt whatever | C |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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