The Return Of Belisarius Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACADA EAFABABA GAEAAAEA BAHAAABA AABAEACA| So you're back from your travels old fellow | A |
| And you left but a twelvemonth ago | A |
| You've hobnobbed with Louis Napoleon | B |
| Eugenie and kissed the Pope's toe | A |
| By Jove it is perfectly stunning | C |
| Astounding and all that you know | A |
| Yes things are about as you left them | D |
| In Mud Flat a twelvemonth ago | A |
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| The boys they're all right Oh Dick Ashley | E |
| He's buried somewhere in the snow | A |
| He was lost on the Summit last winter | F |
| And Bob has a hard row to hoe | A |
| You know that he's got the consumption | B |
| You didn't Well come that's a go | A |
| I certainly wrote you at Baden | B |
| Dear me that was six months ago | A |
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| I got all your outlandish letters | G |
| All stamped by some foreign P O | A |
| I handed myself to Miss Mary | E |
| That sketch of a famous chateau | A |
| Tom Saunders is living at 'Frisco | A |
| They say that he cuts quite a show | A |
| You didn't meet Euchre deck Billy | E |
| Anywhere on your road to Cairo | A |
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| So you thought of the rusty old cabin | B |
| The pines and the valley below | A |
| And heard the North Fork of the Yuba | H |
| As you stood on the banks of the Po | A |
| 'Twas just like your romance old fellow | A |
| But now there is standing a row | A |
| Of stores on the site of the cabin | B |
| That you lived in a twelvemonth ago | A |
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| But it's jolly to see you old fellow | A |
| To think it's a twelvemonth ago | A |
| And you have seen Louis Napoleon | B |
| And look like a Johnny Crapaud | A |
| Come in You will surely see Mary | E |
| You know we are married What no | A |
| Oh ay I forgot there was something | C |
| Between you a twelvemonth ago | A |
Bret Harte (francis)
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