Half An Hour Before Supper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CC DD EE FF GG HH BA II JJ KK LL GG MM| So she's here your unknown Dulcinea the lady you met on the train | A |
| And you really believe she would know you if you were to meet her again | B |
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| Of course he replied she would know me there never was womankind yet | C |
| Forgot the effect she inspired She excuses but does not forget | C |
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| Then you told her your love asked the elder The younger looked up with a smile | D |
| I sat by her side half an hour what else was I doing the while | D |
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| What sit by the side of a woman as fair as the sun in the sky | E |
| And look somewhere else lest the dazzle flash back from your own to her eye | E |
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| No I hold that the speech of the tongue be as frank and as bold as the look | F |
| And I held up herself to herself that was more than she got from her book | F |
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| Young blood laughed the elder no doubt you are voicing the mode of To Day | G |
| But then we old fogies at least gave the lady some chance for delay | G |
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| There's my wife you must know we first met on the journey from Florence to Rome | H |
| It took me three weeks to discover who was she and where was her home | H |
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| Three more to be duly presented three more ere I saw her again | B |
| And a year ere my romance began where yours ended that day on the train | A |
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| Oh that was the style of the stage coach we travel to day by express | I |
| Forty miles to the hour he answered won't admit of a passion that's less | I |
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| But what if you make a mistake quoth the elder The younger half sighed | J |
| What happens when signals are wrong or switches misplaced he replied | J |
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| Very well I must bow to your wisdom the elder returned but submit | K |
| Your chances of winning this woman your boldness has bettered no whit | K |
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| Why you do not at best know her name And what if I try your ideal | L |
| With something if not quite so fair at least more en regle and real | L |
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| Let me find you a partner Nay come I insist you shall follow this way | G |
| My dear will you not add your grace to entreat Mr Rapid to stay | G |
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| My wife Mr Rapid Eh what Why he's gone yet he said he would come | M |
| How rude I don't wonder my dear you are properly crimson and dumb | M |
Bret Harte (francis)
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