Shaemus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GHII JJKK LMNN OPQQ| We will go no more to Shaemus at the Nip | A |
| for sly innuendo and an Oporto Flip | A |
| the rough but tender voice the wide mouthed grin | B |
| the steady unsteady hand that poured the gin | B |
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| memory that flew back years to find a name | C |
| found it and fetched it up still just the same | C |
| the shaky footsteps and then the shaky kidding | D |
| you the big business man outbid outbidding | D |
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| the mystery man the man of deep affairs | E |
| highbrow and playboy and friend of millionaires | E |
| and you the lovers whose love was in your faces | F |
| there you were back once more and still the traces | F |
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| Yes still the traces of that love he loved | G |
| and re examined but as if unmoved | H |
| the names fished up from time or Singapore | I |
| joined and repeated on his bar once more | I |
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| as if no let or hindrance were permitted | J |
| as if both time and space could be outwitted | J |
| endurance noted in a protocol | K |
| and then embalmed of course in alcohol | K |
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| And now himself the immortal lightly gone | L |
| as if stepped out for a quick one who had none | M |
| And dead his room inspected by his friends | N |
| to find a will adjust the odds and ends | N |
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| and there the fifteen suits the malacca cane | O |
| the hats and spats in which he roved again | P |
| far from the furnished room the sacred bar | Q |
| immortal dandy towards an immortal star | Q |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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