Unofficial Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAB CDDED FGGGG GGGGG HIIH GGGGG AJJA HHHHH HKKHK LGGLG GGGGG GMAGA GGGGGONE morning my heart can remember | A |
I sat dreaming there | B |
In the 'governor's' chair | B |
In the office The month was November | A |
And the weather a subject for prayer | B |
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My mind strayed through visions unbounded | C |
Far off seemed the din | D |
That King William Street's in | D |
And the quill of the 'junior' sounded | E |
Like the squeak of an elf's violin | D |
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I was roused with a start some one entered | F |
Though ground glass divide | G |
Off the sanctum inside | G |
The star where my homage was centred | G |
In the office without I descried | G |
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'Oh kind Fate to bring me my Kitty | G |
The boy I can send | G |
At the bank to attend | G |
One partner's just gone from the City | G |
And the other is at the West End | G |
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'Change two pounds boy for threepenny pieces | H |
And there isn't a franc | I |
In the place I will thank | I |
You to take down these coupons from Creasy's | H |
To the London and Westminster Bank ' | - |
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He is gone This can never be Kitty | G |
Alone here with me | G |
Can this ever be she | G |
Laughing here in the heart of the City | G |
With the old office cat on her knee | G |
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'I hope Ben ' she says 'you are stronger | A |
And I hope it's not true | J |
Work is injuring you | J |
And I'd better not stay any longer | A |
As you seem to have so much to do ' | - |
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But she does not go yet Still she lingers | H |
Dry deed boxes press | H |
The crisp folds of her dress | H |
While the desk feels inquisitive fingers | H |
In a touch that is half a caress | H |
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Now dreary and quiet the place is | H |
Here's the space on the floor | K |
I remember of yore | K |
Which was brushed by her ribbons and laces | H |
As she smiled her 'good bye' at the door | K |
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The violets she wore in her bosom | L |
So scented dew wet | G |
Are hard to forget | G |
The dim office grew fair with each blossom | L |
And their fragrance seems haunting it yet | G |
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I'm in partnership now with old Bradley | G |
His brother is dead | G |
So I stand as the Head | G |
Of affairs and I'm thinking thus sadly | G |
Of the sweetness of days that have fled | G |
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My Wimbledon house all that's in it | G |
My life with its dower | M |
Of money bag power | A |
I would throw to the dogs in a minute | G |
To recall from those days but one hour | A |
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Lost light of my eyes little Kitty | G |
Too late now too late | G |
But I'd give my estate | G |
To be once more a clerk in the City | G |
In the office with you t te t te | G |
Edith Nesbit
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