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