Her Last Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCADAD EFGFHIHI JKJKJIJI ALALMMMM NOMOPIQI AKAKPRPR NSNSNTNT DUDUVMVM PIPIMNMN AMAMHMWM AXAXNRNR MIMIYMYM Z AMAMA2IA2I B2MC2MAD2AD2 NNNNAMAM

Being A Reply To His AnswerA
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June th Do you know what that date meansB
June th By this air and these pinesC
Well only you know how I hate scenesB
These might be my very last linesC
For perhaps sir you'll kindly rememberA
If some OTHER things you've forgotD
That you last wrote the th of DECEMBERA
Just six months ago I from this spotD
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From this spot that you said was the fairestE
For once being held in my thoughtF
Now really I call that the barestG
Of well I won't say what I oughtF
For here I am back from my richesH
My triumphs my tours and all thatI
And YOU'RE not to be found in the ditchesH
Or temples of Poverty FlatI
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From Paris we went for the seasonJ
To London when pa wired StopK
Mama says his HEALTH was the reasonJ
I've heard that some things took a dropK
But she said if my patience I'd summonJ
I could go back with him to the FlatI
Perhaps I was thinking of some oneJ
Who of me well was not thinking THATI
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Of course you will SAY that I neverA
Replied to the letter you wroteL
That is just like a man But howeverA
I read it or how could I quoteL
And as to the stories you've heard NoM
Don't tell me you haven't I knowM
You'll not believe one blessed word JoeM
But just whence they came let them goM
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And they came from Sade Lotski of YoloN
Whose father sold clothes on the BarO
You called him Job lotski you know JoeM
And the boys said HER value was parO
Well we met her in Paris just flaringP
With diamonds and lost in a hatI
And she asked me how Joseph was faringQ
In his love suit on Poverty FlatI
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She thought it would shame me I met herA
With a look Joe that made her eyes dropK
And I said that your love suit fared betterA
Than any suit out of THEIR shopK
And I didn't blush THEN as I'm doingP
To find myself here all aloneR
And left Joe to do all the sueingP
To a lover that's certainly flownR
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In this brand new hotel called The LilyN
I wonder who gave it that nameS
I really am feeling quite sillyN
To think I was once called the sameS
And I stare from its windows and fancyN
I'm labeled to each passer byT
Ah gone is the old necromancyN
For nothing seems right to my eyeT
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On that hill there are stores that I knew notD
There's a street where I once lost my wayU
And the copse where you once tied my shoe knotD
Is shamelessly open as dayU
And that bank by the spring I once drank thereV
And you called the place Eden you knowM
Now I'm banished like Eve though the bank thereV
Is belonging to Adams and CoM
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There's the rustle of silk on the sidewalkP
Just now there passed by a tall hatI
But there's gloom in this boom and this wild talkP
Of the future of Poverty FlatI
There's a decorous chill in the air JoeM
Where once we were simple and freeN
And I hear they've been making a mayor JoeM
Of the man who shot Sandy McGeeN
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But there's still the lap lap of the riverA
There's the song of the pines deep and lowM
How my longing for them made me quiverA
In the park that they call FontainebleauM
There's the snow peak that looked on our dancesH
And blushed when the morning said GoM
There's a lot that remains which one fanciesW
But somehow there's never a JoeM
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Perhaps on the whole it is betterA
For you might have been changed like the restX
Though it's strange that I'm trusting this letterA
To papa just to have it addressedX
He thinks he may find you and reallyN
Seems kinder now I'm all aloneR
You might have been here Joe if merelyN
To LOOK what I'm willing to OWNR
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Well well that's all past so good night JoeM
Good night to the river and FlatI
Good night to what's wrong and what's right JoeM
Good night to the past and all thatI
To Harrison's barn and its dancersY
To the moon and the white peak of snowM
And good night to the canyon that answersY
My Joe with its echo of NoM
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P SZ
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I've just got your note You deceiverA
How dared you how COULD you Oh JoeM
To think I've been kept a believerA
In things that were six months agoM
And it's YOU'VE built this house and the bank tooA2
And the mills and the stores and all thatI
And for everything changed I must thank YOUA2
Who have struck it on Poverty FlatI
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How dared you get rich you great stupidB2
Like papa and some men that I knowM
Instead of just trusting to CupidC2
And to me for your money Ah JoeM
Just to think you sent never a word dearA
Till you wrote to papa for consentD2
Now I know why they had me transferred hereA
And the health of papa what THAT meantD2
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Now I know why they call this The LilyN
Why the man who shot Sandy McGeeN
You made mayor 'Twas because oh you sillyN
He once went down the middle with meN
I've been fooled to the top of my bent hereA
So come and ask pardon you knowM
That you've still got to get MY consent dearA
And just think what that echo said JoeM

Bret Harte



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