A Blue Valentine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEF AGHDAEHEABEICEBEEEAC BJEBAAEKABLABB AEEECAAAMEAANACMonsignore | A |
Right Reverend Bishop Valentinus | B |
Sometime of Interamna which is called Ferni | C |
Now of the delightful Court of Heaven | C |
I respectfully salute you | D |
I genuflect | E |
And I kiss your episcopal ring | F |
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It is not Monsignore | A |
The fragrant memory of your holy life | G |
Nor that of your shining and joyous martyrdom | H |
Which causes me now to address you | D |
But since this is your august festival Monsignore | A |
It seems appropriate to me to state | E |
According to a venerable and agreeable custom | H |
That I love a beautiful lady | E |
Her eyes Monsignore | A |
Are so blue that they put lovely little blue reflections | B |
On everything that she looks at | E |
Such as a wall | I |
Or the moon | C |
Or my heart | E |
It is like the light coming through blue stained glass | B |
Yet not quite like it | E |
For the blueness is not transparent | E |
Only translucent | E |
Her soul's light shines through | A |
But her soul cannot be seen | C |
It is something elusive whimsical tender wanton infantile wise | B |
And noble | J |
She wears Monsignore a blue garment | E |
Made in the manner of the Japanese | B |
It is very blue | A |
I think that her eyes have made it more blue | A |
Sweetly staining it | E |
As the pressure of her body has graciously given it form | K |
Loving her Monsignore | A |
I love all her attributes | B |
But I believe | L |
That even if I did not love her | A |
I would love the blueness of her eyes | B |
And her blue garment made in the manner of the Japanese | B |
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Monsignore | A |
I have never before troubled you with a request | E |
The saints whose ears I chiefly worry with my pleas are the most exquisite and maternal Brigid | E |
Gallant Saint Stephen who puts fire in my blood | E |
And your brother bishop my patron | C |
The generous and jovial Saint Nicholas of Bari | A |
But of your courtesy Monsignore | A |
Do me this favour | A |
When you this morning make your way | M |
To the Ivory Throne that bursts into bloom with roses because of her who sits upon it | E |
When you come to pay your devoir to Our Lady | A |
I beg you say to her | A |
Madame a poor poet one of your singing servants yet on earth | N |
Has asked me to say that at this moment he is especially grateful to you | A |
For wearing a blue gown | C |
Alfred Joyce Kilmer (joyce)
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