The Sorcerer's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBBCCB DEDEFBGBBHIIIIIIJJKK JJIILBBCCB BBBBBBBBIBBIIIIIIIII MMMMMMMMLBBBBBBBCCBOh my name is JOHN WELLINGTON WELLS | A |
I'm a dealer in magic and spells | A |
In blessings and curses | B |
And ever filled purses | B |
In prophecies witches and knells | B |
If you want a proud foe to make tracks | B |
If you'd melt a rich uncle in wax | B |
You've but to look in | C |
On our resident Djinn | C |
Number seventy Simmery Axe | B |
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We've a first class assortment of magic | D |
And for raising a posthumous shade | E |
With effects that are comic or tragic | D |
There's no cheaper house in the trade | E |
Love philtre we've quantities of it | F |
And for knowledge if any one burns | B |
We keep an extremely small prophet a prophet | G |
Who brings us unbounded returns | B |
For he can prophesy | B |
With a wink OF his eye | H |
Peep with security | I |
Into futurity | I |
Sum up your history | I |
Clear up a mystery | I |
Humour proclivity | I |
For a nativity | I |
With mirrors so magical | J |
Tetrapods tragical | J |
Bogies spectacular | K |
Answers oracular | K |
Facts astronomical | J |
Solemn or comical | J |
And if you want it he | I |
Makes a reduction on taking a quantity | I |
Oh | L |
If any one anything lacks | B |
He'll find it all ready in stacks | B |
If he'll only look in | C |
On the resident Djinn | C |
Number seventy Simmery Axe | B |
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He can raise you hosts | B |
Of ghosts | B |
And that without reflectors | B |
And creepy things | B |
With wings | B |
And gaunt and grisly spectres | B |
He can fill you crowds | B |
Of shrouds | B |
And horrify you vastly | I |
He can rack your brains | B |
With chains | B |
And gibberings grim and ghastly | I |
Then if you plan it he | I |
Changes organity | I |
With an urbanity | I |
Full of Satanity | I |
Vexes humanity | I |
With an inanity | I |
Fatal to vanity | I |
Driving your foes to the verge of insanity | I |
Barring tautology | M |
In demonology | M |
'Lectro biology | M |
Mystic nosology | M |
Spirit philology | M |
High class astrology | M |
Such is his knowledge he | M |
Isn't the man to require an apology | M |
Oh | L |
My name is JOHN WELLINGTON WELLS | B |
I'm a dealer in magic and spells | B |
In blessings and curses | B |
And ever filled purses | B |
In prophecies witches and knells | B |
If any one anything lacks | B |
He'll find it all ready in stacks | B |
If he'll only look in | C |
On the resident Djinn | C |
Number seventy Simmery Axe | B |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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