The Sorcerer's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBBCCB DEDEFBGBBHIIIIIIJJKK JJIILBBCCB BBBBBBBBIBBIIIIIIIII MMMMMMMMLBBBBBBBCCB| Oh 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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