Aux Ternes. {46} (paris.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI ABAB JKLK MNMO PQPR GSGS TSTS SUSV WNWO SFSF| SHE Up and down up and down | A |
| From early eve to early day | B |
| Life is quicker in the town | A |
| When you've leisure anyway | B |
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| Down and up down and up | C |
| O will no one stop and speak | D |
| I would really like to sup | C |
| And my limbs are heavy and weak | D |
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| What's my price sir I'm no Jew | E |
| If with me you wish to sleep | F |
| 'Tis five francs sir Surely you | E |
| Will admit that that is cheap | F |
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| HE Christ if you are not stone blind | G |
| Stone deaf also you know it is | H |
| Christian towns leave far behind | G |
| Sodom and those other cities | I |
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| Bid your Father strike this town | A |
| Wipe it utterly away | B |
| Weary hungry up and down | A |
| From early eve to early day | B |
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| Magdalen knew nought like this | J |
| She had food and roof above | K |
| Seven devils too did she possess | L |
| This poor soul had but one love | K |
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| O my sister take me kill me | M |
| I am one of those who once | N |
| Only cared to feast and fill me | M |
| On these robbed and murdered ones | O |
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| Kill me Nay but love me listen | P |
| I have too a gospel word | Q |
| Fit to make still dull eyes glisten | P |
| And like Christ's it brings a sword | R |
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| No Christ is not deaf nor blind | G |
| He's but dust in Syrian ground | S |
| And his Father has declined | G |
| To a parson's phrase a sound | S |
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| Not by such then but by us | T |
| These hell wrongs must be redressed | S |
| Take this morsel venomous | T |
| Nourish it within your breast | S |
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| You must live on live and hate | S |
| Conquer wrath despair and pain | U |
| For we bid you hope and wait | S |
| Till the Red Flag flies again | V |
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| Till once more the people rise | W |
| Once more once and only once | N |
| Blood red hands and blazing eyes | W |
| Of the robbed and murdered ones | O |
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| So good night dear desperate heart | S |
| Nay 'tis sun bright day we keep | F |
| Soon we meet though now we part | S |
| Kiss me Take it Go and sleep | F |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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