The Sensation Captain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGBHHB IIJKBJ LLMNNM OOPKKP QQNRRN FFSTTS UUIIII VVMTTM WWMXXM AAEYYE BZA2A2Z FFBB2B2B BBBC2C2B BBMBBM XXED2D2D2D2E| No nobler captain ever trod | A |
| Than CAPTAIN PARKLEBURY TODD | A |
| So good so wise so brave he | B |
| But still as all his friends would own | C |
| He had one folly one alone | C |
| This Captain in the Navy | B |
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| I do not think I ever knew | D |
| A man so wholly given to | D |
| Creating a sensation | E |
| Or p'raps I should in justice say | F |
| To what in an Adelphi play | F |
| Is known as situation | E |
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| He passed his time designing traps | G |
| To flurry unsuspicious chaps | G |
| The taste was his innately | B |
| He couldn't walk into a room | H |
| Without ejaculating Boom | H |
| Which startled ladies greatly | B |
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| He'd wear a mask and muffling cloak | I |
| Not you will understand in joke | I |
| As some assume disguises | J |
| He did it actuated by | K |
| A simple love of mystery | B |
| And fondness for surprises | J |
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| I need not say he loved a maid | L |
| His eloquence threw into shade | L |
| All others who adored her | M |
| The maid though pleased at first I know | N |
| Found after several years or so | N |
| Her startling lover bored her | M |
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| So when his orders came to sail | O |
| She did not faint or scream or wail | O |
| Or with her tears anoint him | P |
| She shook his hand and said Good bye | K |
| With laughter dancing in her eye | K |
| Which seemed to disappoint him | P |
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| But ere he went aboard his boat | Q |
| He placed around her little throat | Q |
| A ribbon blue and yellow | N |
| On which he hung a double tooth | R |
| A simple token this in sooth | R |
| 'Twas all he had poor fellow | N |
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| I often wonder he would say | F |
| When very very far away | F |
| If ANGELINA wears it | S |
| A plan has entered in my head | T |
| I will pretend that I am dead | T |
| And see how ANGY bears it | S |
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| The news he made a messmate tell | U |
| His ANGELINA bore it well | U |
| No sign gave she of crazing | I |
| But steady as the Inchcape Rock | I |
| His ANGELINA stood the shock | I |
| With fortitude amazing | I |
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| She said Some one I must elect | V |
| Poor ANGELINA to protect | V |
| From all who wish to harm her | M |
| Since worthy CAPTAIN TODD is dead | T |
| I rather feel inclined to wed | T |
| A comfortable farmer | M |
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| A comfortable farmer came | W |
| BASSANIO TYLER was his name | W |
| Who had no end of treasure | M |
| He said My noble gal be mine | X |
| The noble gal did not decline | X |
| But simply said With pleasure | M |
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| When this was told to CAPTAIN TODD | A |
| At first he thought it rather odd | A |
| And felt some perturbation | E |
| But very long he did not grieve | Y |
| He thought he could a way perceive | Y |
| To SUCH a situation | E |
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| I'll not reveal myself said he | B |
| Till they are both in the Ecclesiastical arena | Z |
| Then suddenly I will appear | A2 |
| And paralysing them with fear | A2 |
| Demand my ANGELINA | Z |
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| At length arrived the wedding day | F |
| Accoutred in the usual way | F |
| Appeared the bridal body | B |
| The worthy clergyman began | B2 |
| When in the gallant Captain ran | B2 |
| And cried Behold your TODDY | B |
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| The bridegroom p'raps was terrified | B |
| And also possibly the bride | B |
| The bridesmaids WERE affrighted | B |
| But ANGELINA noble soul | C2 |
| Contrived her feelings to control | C2 |
| And really seemed delighted | B |
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| My bride said gallant CAPTAIN TODD | B |
| She's mine uninteresting clod | B |
| My own my darling charmer | M |
| Oh dear said she you're just too late | B |
| I'm married to I beg to state | B |
| This comfortable farmer | M |
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| Indeed the farmer said she's mine | X |
| You've been and cut it far too fine | X |
| I see said TODD I'm beaten | E |
| And so he went to sea once more | D2 |
| Sensation he for aye forswore | D2 |
| And married on her native shore | D2 |
| A lady whom he'd met before | D2 |
| A lovely Otaheitan | E |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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