John Gorham Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGHG FIJI AKLK MNFN ALEL OCFC APOP FQNQ| Tell me what you're doing over here John Gorham | A |
| Sighing hard and seeming to be sorry when you're not | B |
| Make me laugh or let me go now for long faces in the moonlight | C |
| Are a sign for me to say again a word that you forgot | B |
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| I'm over here to tell you what the moon already | D |
| May have said or maybe shouted ever since a year ago | E |
| I'm over here to tell you what you are Jane Wayland | F |
| And to make you rather sorry I should say for being so | E |
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| Tell me what you're saying to me now John Gorham | A |
| Or you'll never see as much of me as ribbons any more | G |
| I'll vanish in as many ways as I have toes and fingers | H |
| And you'll not follow far for one where flocks have been before | G |
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| I'm sorry now you never saw the flocks Jane Wayland | F |
| But you're the one to make of them as many as you need | I |
| And then about the vanishing It's I who mean to vanish | J |
| And when I'm here no longer you'll be done with me indeed | I |
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| That's a way to tell me what I am John Gorham | A |
| How am I to know myself until I make you smile | K |
| Try to look as if the moon were making faces at you | L |
| And a little more as if you meant to stay a little while | K |
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| You are what it is that over rose blown gardens | M |
| Makes a pretty flutter for a season in the sun | N |
| You are what it is that with a mouse Jane Wayland | F |
| Catches him and lets him go and eats him up for fun | N |
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| Sure I never took you for a mouse John Gorham | A |
| All you say is easy but so far from being true | L |
| That I wish you wouldn't ever be again the one to think so | E |
| For it isn't cats and butterflies that I would be to you | L |
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| All your little animals are in one picture | O |
| One I've had before me since a year ago to night | C |
| And the picture where they live will be of you Jane Wayland | F |
| Till you find a way to kill them or to keep them out of sight | C |
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| Won't you ever see me as I am John Gorham | A |
| Leaving out the foolishness and all I never meant | P |
| Somewhere in me there's a woman if you know the way to find her | O |
| Will you like me any better if I prove it and repent | P |
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| I doubt if I shall ever have the time Jane Wayland | F |
| And I dare say all this moonlight lying round us might as well | Q |
| Fall for nothing on the shards of broken urns that are forgotten | N |
| As on two that have no longer much of anything to tell | Q |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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