Vers De Societe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJI KLML NOPO NQRQ STUT VWXW RYZY A2B2CB2 C2QSQ D2BQB| This chain of white arms round the room | A |
| The demon waltz bewilders me | B |
| Or am I drunk with this good wine | C |
| Vive la compagnie | B |
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| My friend young Highboys have you met | D |
| O yes how do good brandy here | E |
| The wretch's mother in her youth | F |
| Was famous for her beer | G |
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| Before his patent scraper sold | H |
| Old Highboys used to beat them all | I |
| See what Society has done | J |
| He's holding her cashmere shawl | I |
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| How is it Madam that I know | K |
| The guests at once Wipe off the paint | L |
| Convention daubs us all alike | M |
| Sinner as well as Saint | L |
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| I see you in the crimson chair | N |
| Behind your jewelled Spanish fan | O |
| Slipping your bracelets up and down | P |
| Flashing your eyes on the man | O |
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| Who plays the harp he twangs an air | N |
| You understand you've met before | Q |
| How many lessons did you take | R |
| Madam you need no more | Q |
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| Tiger of fifty So you've bought | S |
| This pretty girl in the Honiton lace | T |
| Now she's abroad she quite forgets | U |
| She shudders in your embrace | T |
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| Dowagers stiff in black brocades | V |
| Worry the waiters sweep their trays | W |
| How they scowl at the foolish men | X |
| Basking in Beauty's blaze | W |
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| Saunters a poet munching cake | R |
| Very distinguished Did you buy | Y |
| Your lace at Beck's Why how he laughs | Z |
| But his verses make one cry | Y |
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| Idle poet a word with you | A2 |
| You sing too much of love's sweet wrong | B2 |
| Of rosy cheeks and purple wine | C |
| Give us a loftier song | B2 |
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| The coachmen stamp upon the steps | C2 |
| Our hostess looks towards the door | Q |
| Our host twists round his limp cravat | S |
| Pronouncing the thing a bore | Q |
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| Our skeletons will be stirring soon | D2 |
| Something already touches me | B |
| Off till I drain one bottle more | Q |
| Vive la compagnie | B |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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