The Foggy, Foggy Blue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE ECECEEGEHEHE IJKJLJEBEMCM| When I was a young man I loved to write poems | A |
| And I called a spade a spade | B |
| And the only only thing that made me sing | C |
| Was to lift the masks at the masquerade | B |
| I took them off my own face | D |
| I took them off others too | E |
| And the only only wrong in all my song | F |
| Was the view that I knew what was true | E |
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| Now I am older and tireder too | E |
| And the tasks with the masks are quite trying | C |
| I d gladly gladly stop if I only only knew | E |
| A better way to keep from lying | C |
| And not get nervous and blue | E |
| When I said something quite untrue | E |
| I looked all around and all over | G |
| To find something else to do | E |
| I tried to be less romantic | H |
| I tried to be less starry eyed too | E |
| But I only got mixed up and frantic | H |
| Forgetting what was false and what was true | E |
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| But tonight I am going to the masked ball | I |
| Because it has occurred to me | J |
| That the masks are more true than the faces | K |
| Perhaps this too is poetry | J |
| I no longer yearn to be na ve and stern | L |
| And masked balls fascinate me | J |
| Now that I know that most falsehoods are true | E |
| Perhaps I can join the charade | B |
| This is at any rate my new and true view | E |
| Let live and believe I say | M |
| The only only thing is to believe in everything | C |
| It s more fun and safer that way | M |
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