Smoke Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBE ADAD C CB AAAA CBCB| Last summer lazing by the sea | A |
| I met a most entrancing creature | B |
| Her black eyes quite bewildered me | A |
| She had a Spanish cast of feature | B |
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| She often smoked a cigarette | C |
| And did it in the cutest fashion | D |
| Before a week passed by she set | C |
| My young heart in a raging passion | D |
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| I swore I loved her as my life | E |
| I gave her gems don't tell my tailor | B |
| She promised to become my wife | E |
| But whispered 'Papa is my jailer ' | - |
| - | |
| 'We must be very sly you see | A |
| For Papa will not list to reason | D |
| You must not come to call on me | A |
| Until he's gone from home a season | D |
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| 'I'll send you word now don't forget | C |
| Take this as pledge I will remember ' | - |
| She gave me a perfumed cigarette | C |
| And turned and left me with September | B |
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| To day she sent her 'cards' to me | A |
| 'My presence asked' to see her marry | A |
| That millionaire old banker C | A |
| She has my 'presents ' so I'll tarry | A |
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| And still I feel a keen regret | C |
| About the jewels that I gave her | B |
| I've smoked the little cigarette | C |
| It had a most delicious flavour | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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