"The Duchess's Song," after Tennyson, was in Punch, September 3, 1881; and British Birds, by Mortimer Collins (1878), contained, amongst others, a capital parody of Tennyson.
THE POETASTERS: A DRAMATIC CANTATA.
Chorus of Poetasters.
AN itch of rhymes has seized the times
Till every cobbler's turned a poet,
And he who taught the secret ought
In justice to be made to know it.
Rhyme, brothers, rhyme, vast odes and epics vaster,
And post them to the Master, Master, Master.