Alfonso, Dressing To Wait At Table Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCC CECE FCFC| Alfonso is a handsome bronze hued lad | A |
| Of subtly changing and surprising parts | B |
| His moods are storms that frighten and make glad | A |
| His eyes were made to capture women's hearts | B |
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| Down in the glory hole Alfonso sings | C |
| An olden song of wine and clinking glasses | D |
| And riotous rakes magnificently flings | C |
| Gay kisses to imaginary lasses | C |
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| Alfonso's voice of mellow music thrills | C |
| Our swaying forms and steals our hearts with joy | E |
| And when he soars his fine falsetto trills | C |
| Are rarest notes of gold without alloy | E |
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| But O Alfonso wherefore do you sing | F |
| Dream songs of carefree men and ancient places | C |
| Soon we shall be beset by clamouring | F |
| Of hungry and importunate palefaces | C |
Claude Mckay
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