To Alice-sit-by-the-hour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH| Lady in the blue kimono you that live across the way | A |
| One may see you gazing gazing gazing all the livelong day | A |
| Idly looking out your window from your vantage point above | B |
| Are you convalescent lady Are you worse Are you in love | B |
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| Ever gazing as you hang there on the little window seat | C |
| Into flats across the way or down upon the prosy street | C |
| Can't you rent a pianola Can't you iron sew or cook | D |
| Write a letter bake a pudding make a bed or read a book | D |
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| Tell me of the fascination you indubitably find | E |
| In the High Cash Cloe's man's holler in the hurdy gurdy grind | E |
| Are your Spanish castles blue prints Are you waiting for a knight | F |
| To descend upon your fastness and to save you from your plight | F |
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| Lady in the blue kimono idle mollycoddle dame | G |
| Does your doing nothing never make you feel the blush of shame | G |
| As you sit and stare and ditto not a single thing to do | H |
| Lady in the blue kimono lady how I envy you | H |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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