And Yet It Is A Gentle Art

Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)



(Parody is a genre frowned upon by your professors
of literature... And yet it is a gentle art-
'The Point of View' in May _Scribner's_.)  

A sweet disorder in the verse
  That never looks behind
Shall profit not who steals my purse,
  Let joy be unconfined!

How vainly men themselves amaze!
  The stars began to blink,
An art that there were few to praise,
  Nor any dropp to drink.

O sleep, it is a blessed thing
  Which I must ne'er enjoy!
There never was a fairer spring
  Than when I was a boy.

One fond embrace and then we part!
  Good-by, my lover, good-by!
And yet it is a gentle art,
  Which nobody can deny.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABA CDCD EFEF GHGH BIBI
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 612
Words 118
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 4, 4, 4

Franklin P. Adams

Franklin Pierce Adams was an American columnist known as Franklin P. Adams and by his initials F. P. A.. Famed for his wit, he is best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please. A prolific writer of light verse, he was a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s. more…

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