The Fall Of Miss Larkin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGG HHIIJJKKLLMM NNMM OOMMPPMMCCQQR| Hear me sing of Sally Larkin who I'd have you understand | A |
| Played accordions as well as any lady in the land | A |
| And I've often heard it stated that her fingering was such | B |
| That Professor Schweinenhauer was enchanted with her touch | B |
| And that beasts were so affected when her apparatus rang | C |
| That they dropped upon their haunches and deliriously sang | C |
| This I know from testimony though a critic I opine | D |
| Needs an ear that is dissimilar in some respects to mine | D |
| She could sing too like a jaybird and they say all eyes were wet | E |
| When Sally and the ranch dog were performing a duet | E |
| Which I take it is a song that has to be so loudly sung | F |
| As to overtax the strength of any single human lung | F |
| That at least would seem to follow from the tale I have to tell | G |
| Which I've told you how she flourished is how Sally Larkin fell | G |
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| One day there came to visit Sally's dad as sleek and smart | H |
| A chap as ever wandered there from any foreign part | H |
| Though his gentle birth and breeding he did not at all obtrude | I |
| It was somehow whispered round he was a simon pure Dude | I |
| Howsoe'er that may have been it was conspicuous to see | J |
| That he was a real Gent of an uncommon high degree | J |
| That Sally cast her tender and affectionate regards | K |
| On this exquisite creation was of course upon the cards | K |
| But he didn't seem to notice and was variously blind | L |
| To her many charms of person and the merits of her mind | L |
| And preferred I grieve to say it to play poker with her dad | M |
| And acted in a manner that in general was bad | M |
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| One evening 'twas in summer she was holding in her lap | N |
| Her accordion and near her stood that melancholy chap | N |
| Leaning up against a pillar with his lip in grog imbrued | M |
| Thinking maybe of that ancient land in which he was a Dude | M |
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| Then Sally who was melancholy too began to hum | O |
| And elongate the accordion with a preluding thumb | O |
| Then sighs of amorosity from Sally L exhaled | M |
| And her music apparatus sympathetically wailed | M |
| 'In the gloaming O my darling ' rose that wild impassioned strain | P |
| And her eyes were fixed on his with an intensity of pain | P |
| Till the ranch dog from his kennel at the postern gate came round | M |
| And going into session strove to magnify the sound | M |
| He lifted up his spirit till the gloaming rang and rang | C |
| With the song that to his darling he impetuously sang | C |
| Then that musing youth recalling all his soul from other scenes | Q |
| Where his fathers all were Dudes and his mothers all Dudines | Q |
| From his lips removed the beaker and politely o'er the grog | R |
| Said 'Miss Larkin please be quiet you will interrupt the dog ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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