Her Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE DFDFGHGI DJDKLMLM NONODMDM NPNPPNPN PQPQRSRP NNNNTUVU PPPPPMPM NNNNRMRM PWPWLMLM| I'm sitting alone by the fire | A |
| Dressed just as I came from the dance | B |
| In a robe even you would admire | C |
| It cost a cool thousand in France | B |
| I'm be diamonded out of all reason | D |
| My hair is done up in a cue | E |
| In short sir the belle of the season | D |
| Is wasting an hour upon you | E |
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| A dozen engagements I've broken | D |
| I left in the midst of a set | F |
| Likewise a proposal half spoken | D |
| That waits on the stairs for me yet | F |
| They say he'll be rich when he grows up | G |
| And then he adores me indeed | H |
| And you sir are turning your nose up | G |
| Three thousand miles off as you read | I |
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| And how do I like my position | D |
| And what do I think of New York | J |
| And now in my higher ambition | D |
| With whom do I waltz flirt or talk | K |
| And isn't it nice to have riches | L |
| And diamonds and silks and all that | M |
| And aren't they a change to the ditches | L |
| And tunnels of Poverty Flat | M |
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| Well yes if you saw us out driving | N |
| Each day in the Park four in hand | O |
| If you saw poor dear mamma contriving | N |
| To look supernaturally grand | O |
| If you saw papa's picture as taken | D |
| By Brady and tinted at that | M |
| You'd never suspect he sold bacon | D |
| And flour at Poverty Flat | M |
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| And yet just this moment when sitting | N |
| In the glare of the grand chandelier | P |
| In the bustle and glitter befitting | N |
| The finest soiree of the year | P |
| In the mists of a gaze de Chambery | P |
| And the hum of the smallest of talk | N |
| Somehow Joe I thought of the Ferry | P |
| And the dance that we had on The Fork | N |
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| Of Harrison's barn with its muster | P |
| Of flags festooned over the wall | Q |
| Of the candles that shed their soft lustre | P |
| And tallow on head dress and shawl | Q |
| Of the steps that we took to one fiddle | R |
| Of the dress of my queer vis a vis | S |
| And how I once went down the middle | R |
| With the man that shot Sandy McGee | P |
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| Of the moon that was quietly sleeping | N |
| On the hill when the time came to go | N |
| Of the few baby peaks that were peeping | N |
| From under their bedclothes of snow | N |
| Of that ride that to me was the rarest | T |
| Of the something you said at the gate | U |
| Ah Joe then I wasn't an heiress | V |
| To the best paying lead in the State | U |
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| Well well it's all past yet it's funny | P |
| To think as I stood in the glare | P |
| Of fashion and beauty and money | P |
| That I should be thinking right there | P |
| Of some one who breasted high water | P |
| And swam the North Fork and all that | M |
| Just to dance with old Folinsbee's daughter | P |
| The Lily of Poverty Flat | M |
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| But goodness what nonsense I'm writing | N |
| Mamma says my taste still is low | N |
| Instead of my triumphs reciting | N |
| I'm spooning on Joseph heigh ho | N |
| And I'm to be finished by travel | R |
| Whatever's the meaning of that | M |
| Oh why did papa strike pay gravel | R |
| In drifting on Poverty Flat | M |
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| Good night here's the end of my paper | P |
| Good night if the longitude please | W |
| For maybe while wasting my taper | P |
| Your sun's climbing over the trees | W |
| But know if you haven't got riches | L |
| And are poor dearest Joe and all that | M |
| That my heart's somewhere there in the ditches | L |
| And you've struck it on Poverty Flat | M |
Bret Harte (francis)
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