Lady Lorgnette Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEFEGHGHII A IJKJLMLMGNGNII| I | A |
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| Lady Lorgnette of the lifted lash | B |
| The curling lip and the dainty nose | C |
| The shell like ear where the jewels flash | B |
| The arching brow and the languid pose | C |
| The rare old lace and the subtle scents | D |
| The slender foot and the fingers frail | E |
| I may act till the world grows wild and tense | F |
| But never a flush on your features pale | E |
| The footlights glimmer between us two | G |
| You in the box and I on the boards | H |
| I am only an actor Madame to you | G |
| A mimic king 'mid his mimic lords | H |
| For you are the belle of the smartest set | I |
| Lady Lorgnette | I |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Little Babette with your eyes of jet | I |
| Your midnight hair and your piquant chin | J |
| Your lips whose odours of violet | K |
| Drive men to madness and saints to sin | J |
| I see you over the footlights' glare | L |
| Down in the pit 'mid the common mob | M |
| Your throat is burning and brown and bare | L |
| You lean and listen and pulse and throb | M |
| The viols are dreaming between us two | G |
| And my gilded crown is no make believe | N |
| I am more than an actor dear to you | G |
| For you called me your king but yester eve | N |
| And your heart is my golden coronet | I |
| Little Babette | I |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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