The Old Cafe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAABBCCDDAA EEFFFGGFFFEEHHIIEE EEFFFFEEJKLLMMEE FFNNEEOOEE FFEEFFOOHHFFEE

You knowA
Don't you JoeA
Those merry evenings long agoA
You know the room the narrow stairB
The wreaths of smoke that circled thereB
The corner table where we satC
For hours in after dinner chatC
And magnifiedD
Our little world insideD
You knowA
Don't you JoeA
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Ah those nights divineE
The simple frugal wineE
The airs on crude Italian stringsF
The joyous harmless revelingsF
Just fit for us or kingsF
At times a quaint and wickered flaskG
Of rare Chianti or from the homelier caskG
Of modest Pilsener a stein or soF
Amid the merry talk would flowF
Or red BordeauxF
From vines that grew where dear MontaigneE
Held his domainE
And you remember that dark eyeH
None too shyH
In fact she seemed a bit too freeI
For you and meI
You knowE
Don't you JoeE
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Then Pegasus I knewE
And then I read to youE
My callow rhymesF
So many many timesF
And something in the placeF
Lent them a certain graceF
Until I scarce believed them mineE
Under the magic of the wineE
But now I read them o'erJ
And see grave faults I had not seen beforeK
And wonder howL
You could have listened with such placid browL
And somehow apprehendM
You sank the critic in the friendM
You knowE
Don't you JoeE
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And when we talked of booksF
How learned were our looksF
And few the bards we could not quoteN
From gay Catullus' lines to Milton's purer noteN
Mayhap we now are wiser menE
But we knew more than all the scholars thenE
And our conceitO
Was grand ineffable completeO
We knowE
Don't we JoeE
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Gone are those golden nightsF
Of innocent Bohemian delightsF
And we are getting onE
And anonE
Years sad and tremulousF
May be in store for usF
But should we ever meetO
Upon some quiet streetO
And you discover in an old man's eyeH
Some transient sparkle of the days gone byH
Then you will guess perchanceF
The meaning of the glanceF
You'll knowE
Won't you JoeE

Arthur Macy



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