Aunt Dorothy's Lecture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIJKKLK MNONPQRS TMUMKVWVXKYKZIA2ISKB 2KIC2KC2 KD2E2F2ZG2H2G2 OI2KI2KZJ2ZKKK2KL2KK K M2IKIKN2O2N2 YE2KE2KBA2G2 P2Q2BR2KZTZ| Come go and practise get your work | A |
| Do something Nelly pray | B |
| I hate to see you moon about | C |
| In this uncertain way | B |
| Why do you look so vacant child | D |
| I fear you must be ill | E |
| Surely you are not thinking of | F |
| That Captain Cameron still | E |
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| Ah yes I fear'd so You may blush | G |
| I blush for you my dear | H |
| And it is scarce a week ago | I |
| Since Gerald brought him here | J |
| The day he fell in the hunting field | K |
| And his pretty horse was lamed | K |
| O child and with your bringing up | L |
| You ought to be ashamed | K |
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| Last night I saw you watching him | M |
| And you danced with him thrice | N |
| You turn'd quite red when he spoke to you | O |
| Such manners are not nice | N |
| You Nelly Gray should not be seen | P |
| I don't wish to be harsh | Q |
| Running wild like the servant girls | R |
| For a red coat and moustache | S |
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| Not that he isn't a gentleman | T |
| From spur to shako brim | M |
| I know good blood when I see it yes | U |
| I will say that for him | M |
| He does not swagger nor lisp nor flirt | K |
| Has none of those vulgar ways | V |
| And he does not talk like a stable boy | W |
| As the fashion is nowadays | V |
| In fact I admire him very much | X |
| My dear you need not fret | K |
| I do he's very different from | Y |
| The rest of Gerald's set | K |
| He's very handsome certainly | Z |
| I don't mind saying so | I |
| He reminds me a bit of your uncle when | A2 |
| I met him long ago | I |
| He had a silky long moustache | S |
| Of just that golden shade | K |
| And broad Greek brows with a tint of bronze | B2 |
| That Indian suns had made | K |
| He was a soldier too you know | I |
| As big and strong and tall | C2 |
| He'd just come home when I saw him first | K |
| At Lady Talbot's ball | C2 |
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| I remember when we were introduced | K |
| By stealth I look'd him o'er | D2 |
| Such haughty indolent gentle eyes | E2 |
| I never saw before | F2 |
| I felt so strange when he look'd at me | Z |
| I cannot tell you why | G2 |
| But I seem'd to feel he was mine to keep | H2 |
| And love till I should die | G2 |
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| 'Twas very odd in a moment too | O |
| Before I knew his name | I2 |
| But Nelly O how the world was changed | K |
| And brighten'd when he came | I2 |
| I was so restless all that night | K |
| I did not want to see | Z |
| I felt where he moved about the room | J2 |
| While he was away from me | Z |
| I was jealous I could not help it | K |
| Although I struggled hard | K |
| Of the other girls whose favour'd names | K2 |
| Were written on his card | K |
| They were so rich and I was poor | L2 |
| They were so grandly dress'd | K |
| And I so dowdy and yet and yet | K |
| I thought he liked me best | K |
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| The last long hour he danced with them | M2 |
| And oh I miss'd him so | I |
| And then I heard our carriage call'd | K |
| And I knew that I must go | I |
| A big lump rose up in my throat | K |
| That I could hardly bear | N2 |
| But passing through the vestibule | O2 |
| I saw him standing there | N2 |
| - | |
| I knew not where he came from | Y |
| But I felt no surprise | E2 |
| When he look'd down from his stately height | K |
| With his grave and quiet eyes | E2 |
| And held his hand for a mute good night | K |
| That said all words could say | B |
| Ah love he made me happy then | A2 |
| For ever and for aye | G2 |
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| Well well but this is nonsense | P2 |
| How I am running on | Q2 |
| His golden hair grew thin and grey | B |
| And now he's dead and gone | R2 |
| There go and dress for dinner child | K |
| It's getting late you see | Z |
| And perhaps I'll ask young Cameron | T |
| If he'll come in to tea | Z |
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