A May Term Memory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGHGCICI CCCCJGJG DIDIICIC KLKLIMIM NHNFJOJO PDPDQCQC| She wore a sweet pink bonnet | A |
| The sweetest ever known | B |
| And as I gazed upon it | C |
| My heart was not my own | B |
| For I know not why or wherefore | D |
| A pink bonnet put on well | E |
| Tho' few other things I care for | D |
| Acts upon me like a spell | E |
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| 'Twas at the May Term Races | F |
| That first I met her eye | G |
| Amid a thousand Graces | H |
| No form with her's could vie | G |
| On Grassy's sward enamelled | C |
| She reigned fair Beauty's Queen | I |
| And every heart entrammell'd | C |
| With the charms of sweet eighteen | I |
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| Once more I saw that Bonnet | C |
| 'Twas on the King's Parade | C |
| Once more I gazed upon it | C |
| And silent homage paid | C |
| She knew not I was gazing | J |
| She passed unheeding by | G |
| While I in trance amazing | J |
| Stood staring at the sky | G |
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| The May Term now is over | D |
| That Bonnet has 'gone down' | I |
| And I'm myself a rover | D |
| Far from my Cap and Gown | I |
| But I dread the Long Vacation | I |
| And its work by night and day | C |
| After all the dissipation | I |
| Energetic of the May | C |
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| For x and y will vanish | K |
| When that Bonnet I recall | L |
| And a vision fair will banish | K |
| Newton Euclid and Snowball | L |
| And a gleam of tresses golden | I |
| And of eyes divinely blue | M |
| Will interfere with Holden | I |
| And my Verse and Prose imbue | M |
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| These sweet girl graduate beauties | N |
| With their bonnets and their roses | H |
| Will mar ere long the duties | N |
| Which Granta wise imposes | F |
| Who when such eyes are shining | J |
| Can quell his heart's sensations | O |
| Or turn without repining | J |
| To Square Root and Equations | O |
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| And when conspicuous my name | P |
| By absence shall appear | D |
| When I have lost all hopes of fame | P |
| Which once I held so dear | D |
| When 'plucked' I seek a vain relief | Q |
| In plaintive dirge or sonnet | C |
| Thou wilt have caused that bitter grief | Q |
| Thou beautiful Pink Bonnet | C |
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Edward Woodley Bowling
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