The After-dinner Smoke Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDDC EEFGHHIG JJKLMMNL OOIPAADP| THROUGH the smoke clouds that I blow | A |
| I can see the Long Ago | A |
| And the merry lanes of boyhood | B |
| That I gayly used to tread | C |
| See the crows upon the wing | D |
| Hear the thrushes sweetly sing | D |
| And once more I 'm stretched out dreaming | D |
| With the green grass for a bed | C |
| - | |
| As I slowly puff away | E |
| I 'm a boy once more at play | E |
| I am angling for the catfish | F |
| Or I 'm swimming with my chums | G |
| Now I chaw green apples too | H |
| Underneath God's stretch of blue | H |
| With not a thought of trouble | I |
| Or the pain that after comes | G |
| - | |
| As the blue smoke slowly curls | J |
| Once again I see the girls | J |
| In their little gingham dresses | K |
| And their faces berry brown | L |
| Then one little maid I see | M |
| Who was all in all to me | M |
| In the days before I journeyed | N |
| From the old home to the town | L |
| - | |
| Now she comes into the room | O |
| Where I 'm dreaming in the gloom | O |
| And she says the air is frightful | I |
| And she starts to gasp and choke | P |
| But of course she doesn't know | A |
| How the days of Long Ago | A |
| Come back to me each evening | D |
| In my after dinner smoke | P |
Edgar Albert Guest
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