The Old Cafe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBCCDDAA EEFFFGGFFFEEHHIIEE EEFFFFEEJKLLMMEE FFNNEEOOEE FFEEFFOOHHFFEEYou know | A |
Don't you Joe | A |
Those merry evenings long ago | A |
You know the room the narrow stair | B |
The wreaths of smoke that circled there | B |
The corner table where we sat | C |
For hours in after dinner chat | C |
And magnified | D |
Our little world inside | D |
You know | A |
Don't you Joe | A |
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Ah those nights divine | E |
The simple frugal wine | E |
The airs on crude Italian strings | F |
The joyous harmless revelings | F |
Just fit for us or kings | F |
At times a quaint and wickered flask | G |
Of rare Chianti or from the homelier cask | G |
Of modest Pilsener a stein or so | F |
Amid the merry talk would flow | F |
Or red Bordeaux | F |
From vines that grew where dear Montaigne | E |
Held his domain | E |
And you remember that dark eye | H |
None too shy | H |
In fact she seemed a bit too free | I |
For you and me | I |
You know | E |
Don't you Joe | E |
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Then Pegasus I knew | E |
And then I read to you | E |
My callow rhymes | F |
So many many times | F |
And something in the place | F |
Lent them a certain grace | F |
Until I scarce believed them mine | E |
Under the magic of the wine | E |
But now I read them o'er | J |
And see grave faults I had not seen before | K |
And wonder how | L |
You could have listened with such placid brow | L |
And somehow apprehend | M |
You sank the critic in the friend | M |
You know | E |
Don't you Joe | E |
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And when we talked of books | F |
How learned were our looks | F |
And few the bards we could not quote | N |
From gay Catullus' lines to Milton's purer note | N |
Mayhap we now are wiser men | E |
But we knew more than all the scholars then | E |
And our conceit | O |
Was grand ineffable complete | O |
We know | E |
Don't we Joe | E |
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Gone are those golden nights | F |
Of innocent Bohemian delights | F |
And we are getting on | E |
And anon | E |
Years sad and tremulous | F |
May be in store for us | F |
But should we ever meet | O |
Upon some quiet street | O |
And you discover in an old man's eye | H |
Some transient sparkle of the days gone by | H |
Then you will guess perchance | F |
The meaning of the glance | F |
You'll know | E |
Won't you Joe | E |
Arthur Macy
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