Idylettes Of The Queen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBDCCD E CCFFGHHHG IIJJEE K KCKKC AKAAK L MMCCM MMCN MMCCMN O OPOOOPOP Q RQQR S TT U MMVV W AA| I SHE | A |
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| I fain would write on pleasant themes | B |
| So let me prate | C |
| Awhile of Kate | C |
| And if my rhyming effort seems | B |
| Uncouth or rough | D |
| At any rate | C |
| She's Kate | C |
| And that's enough | D |
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| II HER EYES | E |
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| Her eyes are bright | C |
| I cannot say like stars at night | C |
| Nor can I say | F |
| Like the Orb of Day | F |
| Because such phrases are archaic | G |
| And if I swear | H |
| That they compare | H |
| With diamonds rare | H |
| That's too prosaic | G |
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| I've hunted my thesaurus through | I |
| The Century and Webster too | I |
| But all in vain | J |
| 'Tis therefore plain | J |
| That they who made these books so wise | E |
| Had never seen her eyes | E |
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| III HER GOWN | K |
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| When Kate puts on her Sunday gown | K |
| And goes to church all in her best | C |
| The watchful gargoyles looking down | K |
| Relax their most forbidding frown | K |
| And smile with kindly interest | C |
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| Discerning gargoyles could I be | A |
| One of your number looking down | K |
| With you I surely would agree | A |
| And share your amiability | A |
| At sight of Kate and Sunday gown | K |
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| IV HER KNOWLEDGE | L |
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| How much she knows no one can tell | M |
| But she can read and write and spell | M |
| Divide and multiply and add | C |
| And name the apples Thomas had | C |
| When John enticed him five to sell | M |
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| For jelly she does not say jell | M |
| Nor horrify us with umbrell | M |
| For all of which we're very glad | C |
| How much she knows | N |
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| She knows the oyster by his shell | M |
| Detects the newsboy by his yell | M |
| Enumerates the bones in shad | C |
| And thinks my poetry is bad | C |
| Well well well well well well well well | M |
| How much she knows | N |
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| V HER SIGH | O |
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| When she utters a sigh | O |
| 'Tis a breath from the roses | P |
| And a hovering nigh | O |
| When she utters a sigh | O |
| The bees wonder why | O |
| No garden discloses | P |
| When she utters a sigh | O |
| 'Tis a breath from the roses | P |
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| VI HER RING | Q |
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| Her ring goes round her finger | R |
| Oh foolish thing | Q |
| Were I a ring | Q |
| I'd not go round I'd linger | R |
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| VII HER FAULTS | S |
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| Of faults she has but one | T |
| And that is she has none | T |
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| VIII HER VOICE | U |
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| Sweet and soothing rhythmic tuneful | M |
| Dulcet mellow unbassoonful | M |
| Zither 'cello lute guitar | V |
| And there you are | V |
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| IX HER LOVE | W |
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| Do you love me | A |
| R S V P | A |
Arthur Macy
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