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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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