The Reward Of Merit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGG HHIIJJKKEFGG LLMMNNGGFEOO| DR BELVILLE was regarded as the CRICHTON of his age | A |
| His tragedies were reckoned much too thoughtful for the stage | A |
| His poems held a noble rank although it's very true | B |
| That being very proper they were read by very few | B |
| He was a famous Painter too and shone upon the line | C |
| And even MR RUSKIN came and worshipped at his shrine | C |
| But alas the school he followed was heroically high | D |
| The kind of Art men rave about but very seldom buy | D |
| And everybody said | E |
| How can he be repaid | F |
| This very great this very good this very gifted man | G |
| But nobody could hit upon a practicable plan | G |
| - | |
| He was a great Inventor and discovered all alone | H |
| A plan for making everybody's fortune but his own | H |
| For in business an Inventor's little better than a fool | I |
| And my highly gifted friend was no exception to the rule | I |
| His poems people read them in the Quarterly Reviews | J |
| His pictures they engraved them in the ILLUSTRATED NEWS | J |
| His inventions they perhaps might have enriched him by degrees | K |
| But all his little income went in Patent Office fees | K |
| And everybody said | E |
| How can he be repaid | F |
| This very great this very good this very gifted man | G |
| But nobody could hit upon a practicable plan | G |
| - | |
| At last the point was given up in absolute despair | L |
| When a distant cousin died and he became a millionaire | L |
| With a county seat in Parliament a moor or two of grouse | M |
| And a taste for making inconvenient speeches in the House | M |
| THEN it flashed upon Britannia that the fittest of rewards | N |
| Was to take him from the Commons and to put him in the Lords | N |
| And who so fit to sit in it deny it if you can | G |
| As this very great this very good this very gifted man | G |
| Though I'm more than half afraid | F |
| That it sometimes may be said | E |
| That we never should have revelled in that source of proper pride | O |
| However great his merits if his cousin hadn't died | O |
William Schwenck Gilbert
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
About The Reward Of Merit
The Reward Of Merit is a poem by William Schwenck Gilbert. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
Write your comment about The Reward Of Merit poem by William Schwenck Gilbert
Best Poems of William Schwenck Gilbert