The Pantomime Super To His Mask Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDDDA DDEEDDDDD FDGGDDDDH DDBBDDDDD I JDCCDDDDJ| Vast empty shell | A |
| Impertinent preposterous abortion | B |
| With vacant stare | C |
| And ragged hair | C |
| And every feature out of all proportion | B |
| Embodiment of echoing inanity | D |
| Excellent type of simpering insanity | D |
| Unwieldy clumsy nightmare of humanity | D |
| I ring thy knell | A |
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| To night thou diest | D |
| Beast that destroy'st my heaven born identity | D |
| Nine weeks of nights | E |
| Before the lights | E |
| Swamped in thine own preposterous nonentity | D |
| I've been ill treated cursed and thrashed diurnally | D |
| Credited for the smile you wear externally | D |
| I feel disposed to smash thy face infernally | D |
| As there thou liest | D |
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| I've been thy brain | F |
| I'VE been the brain that lit thy dull concavity | D |
| The human race | G |
| Invest MY face | G |
| With thine expression of unchecked depravity | D |
| Invested with a ghastly reciprocity | D |
| I'VE been responsible for thy monstrosity | D |
| I for thy wanton blundering ferocity | D |
| But not again | H |
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| 'T is time to toll | D |
| Thy knell and that of follies pantomimical | D |
| A nine weeks' run | B |
| And thou hast done | B |
| All thou canst do to make thyself inimical | D |
| Adieu embodiment of all inanity | D |
| Excellent type of simpering insanity | D |
| Unwieldy clumsy nightmare of humanity | D |
| Freed is thy soul | D |
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| THE MASK RESPONDETH | I |
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| Oh master mine | J |
| Look thou within thee ere again ill using me | D |
| Art thou aware | C |
| Of nothing there | C |
| Which might abuse thee as thou art abusing me | D |
| A brain that mourns THINE unredeemed rascality | D |
| A soul that weeps at THY threadbare morality | D |
| Both grieving that THEIR individuality | D |
| Is merged in thine | J |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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