True Diffidence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBACBBC DEAAFDBGGB BDHHDBIJJI| My boy you may take it from me | A |
| That of all the afflictions accurst | B |
| With which a man's saddled | B |
| And hampered and addled | B |
| A diffident nature's the worst | B |
| Though clever as clever can be | A |
| A Crichton of early romance | C |
| You must stir it and stump it | B |
| And blow your own trumpet | B |
| Or trust me you haven't a chance | C |
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| Now take for example MY case | D |
| I've a bright intellectual brain | E |
| In all London city | A |
| There's no one so witty | A |
| I've thought so again and again | F |
| I've a highly intelligent face | D |
| My features cannot be denied | B |
| But whatever I try sir | G |
| I fail in and why sir | G |
| I'm modesty personified | B |
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| As a poet I'm tender and quaint | B |
| I've passion and fervour and grace | D |
| From Ovid and Horace | H |
| To Swinburne and Morris | H |
| They all of them take a back place | D |
| Then I sing and I play and I paint | B |
| Though none are accomplished as I | I |
| To say so were treason | J |
| You ask me the reason | J |
| I'm diffident modest and shy | I |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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