True Diffidence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBACBBC DEAAFDBGGB BDHHDBIJJIMy 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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