Lines Suggested By The Fourteenth Of February - Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEC DDDBFFG H ID JKD JJKFKKKF| Darkness succeeds to twilight | A |
| Through lattice and through skylight | A |
| The stars no doubt if one looked out | B |
| Might be observed to shine | C |
| And sitting by the embers | D |
| I elevate my members | D |
| On a stray chair and then and there | E |
| Commence a Valentine | C |
| - | |
| Yea by St Valentinus | D |
| Emma shall not be minus | D |
| What all young ladies whate'er their grade is | D |
| Expect to day no doubt | B |
| Emma the fair the stately | F |
| Whom I beheld so lately | F |
| Smiling beneath the snow white wreath | G |
| Which told that she was 'out ' | - |
| - | |
| Wherefore fly to her swallow | H |
| And mention that I'd 'follow ' | - |
| And 'pipe and trill ' et cetera till | I |
| I died had I but wings | D |
| Say the North's 'true and tender ' | - |
| The South an old offender | J |
| And hint in fact with your well known tact | K |
| All kinds of pretty things | D |
| - | |
| Say I grow hourly thinner | J |
| Simply abhor my dinner | J |
| Tho' I do try and absorb some viand | K |
| Each day for form's sake merely | F |
| And ask her when all's ended | K |
| And I am found extended | K |
| With vest blood spotted and cut carotid | K |
| To think on Her's sincerely | F |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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