Before The Curtain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEF| Behind the footlights hangs the rusty baize | A |
| A trifle shabby in the upturned blaze | A |
| Of flaring gas and curious eyes that gaze | A |
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| The stage methinks perhaps is none too wide | B |
| And hardly fit for royal Richard's stride | B |
| Or Falstaff's bulk or Denmark's youthful pride | B |
| - | |
| Ah well no passion walks its humble boards | C |
| O'er it no king nor valiant Hector lords | C |
| The simplest skill is all its space affords | C |
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| The song and jest the dance and trifling play | D |
| The local hit at follies of the day | D |
| The trick to pass an idle hour away | D |
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| For these no trumpets that announce the Moor | E |
| No blast that makes the hero's welcome sure | E |
| A single fiddle in the overture | F |
Bret Harte
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