In The Gloaming Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH CJCJ GKCK LMCM CKNK KLOL| In the Gloaming to be roaming where the crested waves are foaming | A |
| And the shy mermaidens combing locks that ripple to their feet | B |
| When the Gloaming is I never made the ghost of an endeavour | C |
| To discover but whatever were the hour it would be sweet | B |
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| To their feet I say for Leech's sketch indisputably teaches | D |
| That the mermaids of our beaches do not end in ugly tails | E |
| Nor have homes among the corals but are shod with neat balmorals | F |
| An arrangement no one quarrels with as many might with scales | E |
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| Sweet to roam beneath a shady cliff of course with some young lady | G |
| Lalage Neaera Haidee or Elaine or Mary Ann | H |
| Love you dear delusive dream you Very sweet your victims deem you | I |
| When heard only by the seamew they talk all the stuff one can | H |
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| Sweet to haste a licensed lover to Miss Pinkerton the glover | C |
| Having managed to discover what is dear Neaera's size | J |
| P'raps to touch that wrist so slender as your tiny gift you tender | C |
| And to read you're no offender in those laughing hazel eyes | J |
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| Then to hear her call you Harry when she makes you fetch and carry | G |
| O young men about to marry what a blessed thing it is | K |
| To be photograph'd together cased in pretty Russia leather | C |
| Hear her gravely doubting whether they have spoilt your honest phiz | K |
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| Then to bring your plighted fair one first a ring a rich and rare one | L |
| Next a bracelet if she'll wear one and a heap of things beside | M |
| And serenely bending o'er her to inquire if it would bore her | C |
| To say when her own adorer may aspire to call her bride | M |
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| Then the days of courtship over with your WIFE to start for Dover | C |
| Or Dieppe and live in clover evermore whate'er befalls | K |
| For I've read in many a novel that unless they've souls that grovel | N |
| Folks PREFER in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls | K |
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| To sit happy married lovers Phillis trifling with a plover's | K |
| Egg while Corydon uncovers with a grace the Sally Lunn | L |
| Or dissects the lucky pheasant that I think were passing pleasant | O |
| As I sit alone at present dreaming darkly of a Dun | L |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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