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Impromptu In The Assize Court, Nottingham,

Horace Smith 1836 (London) – 1922

On seeing BRET HARTE come upon the Bench.
  
Thanks for an hour of laughing
In a world that is growing old;
Thanks for an hour of weeping
In a world that is growing cold;
For we who have wept with Dickens,
And we who have laughed with Boz,
Have renewed the days of our childhood
With his American Coz.
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Scheme X ABABCCXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 293
Words 60
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 8
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Horace Smith

Horace Smith was an English poet and novelist, perhaps best known for his participation in a sonnet-writing competition with Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was of him that Shelley said: "Is it not odd that the only truly generous person I ever knew who had money enough to be generous with should be a stockbroker? He writes poetry and pastoral dramas and yet knows how to make money, and does make it, and is still generous." more…

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