Mystery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKM NONO PGPG QRQR SDSD ATAU VWVW XYXY ZA2ZA2| I know not if in others' eyes | A |
| She seem'd almost divine | B |
| But far beyond a doubt it lies | A |
| That she did not in mine | B |
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| Each common stone on which she trod | C |
| I did not deem a pearl | D |
| Nay it is not a little odd | C |
| How I abhorr'd that girl | D |
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| We met at balls and picnics oft | E |
| Or on a drawingroom stair | F |
| My aunt invariably cough'd | E |
| To warn me she was there | F |
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| At croquet I was bid remark | G |
| How queenly was her pose | H |
| As with stern glee she drew the dark | G |
| Blue ball beneath her toes | H |
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| And made the Red fly many a foot | I |
| Then calmly she would stoop | J |
| Smiling an angel smile to put | I |
| A partner through his hoop | J |
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| At archery I was made observe | K |
| That others aim'd more near | L |
| But none so tenderly could curve | K |
| The elbow round the ear | M |
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| Or if we rode perhaps she DID | N |
| Pull sharply at the curb | O |
| But then the way in which she slid | N |
| From horseback was superb | O |
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| She'd throw off odes again whose flow | P |
| And fire were more than Sapphic | G |
| Her voice was sweet and very low | P |
| Her singing quite seraphic | G |
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| She WAS a seraph lacking wings | Q |
| That much I freely own | R |
| But it is one of those queer things | Q |
| Whose cause is all unknown | R |
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| Such are the wasp the household fly | S |
| The shapes that crawl and curl | D |
| By men called centipedes that I | S |
| Simply abhorred that girl | D |
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| No doubt some mystery underlies | A |
| All things which are and which are not | T |
| And 'tis the function of the Wise | A |
| Not to expound to us what is what | U |
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| But let his consciousness play round | V |
| The matter and at ease evolve | W |
| The problem shallow or profound | V |
| Which our poor wits have fail'd to solve | W |
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| Then tell us blandly we are fools | X |
| Whereof we were aware before | Y |
| That truth they taught us at the schools | X |
| And p'raps who knows a little more | Y |
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| But why did we two disagree | Z |
| Our tastes it may be did not dovetail | A2 |
| All I know is we ne'er shall be | Z |
| Hero and heroine of a love tale | A2 |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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