Auto-da-fe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGF H IJKJLMNO PQLQRSPS TUVUTWVW VXYXUZPZ U A2DB2DPC2D2C2 VE2VE2PF2LF2| HE EXPLAINS | A |
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| Oh just burning up some old papers | B |
| They do make a good deal of smoke | C |
| That's right Dolly open the window | D |
| They'll blaze if you give them a poke | C |
| I've got a lot more in the closet | E |
| Just look at the dust What a mess | F |
| Why read it of course if you want to | G |
| It's only a letter I guess | F |
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| SHE READS | H |
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| Just me and my pipe and the fire light | I |
| Whose mystical circles of red | J |
| Protect me alone with the shadows | K |
| The smoke wreaths engarland my head | J |
| And the strains of a waltz half forgotten | L |
| The favorite waltz of the year | M |
| Played softly by fairy musicians | N |
| Chime sweetly and low on my ear | O |
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| The smoke cloud floats thickly around me | P |
| All perfumed and white till it seems | Q |
| A bride veil magicians have woven | L |
| To honor the bride of my dreams | Q |
| Float on dreamy waltz through my fancies | R |
| My thoughts in your harmony twine | S |
| Draw near phantom face in your beauty | P |
| Look deep phantom eyes into mine | S |
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| Sweet lips crimson buds half unfolded | T |
| Give breath to the exquisite voice | U |
| That waking the strands of my being | V |
| To melody bids me rejoice | U |
| Dream soul till the world's dream is ended | T |
| Dream heart of your beautiful past | W |
| For dreaming is better than weeping | V |
| And all things but dreams at the last | W |
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| Change rules in the world of the waking | V |
| Its laughter aye ends in a sigh | X |
| Dreams only are changeless immortal | Y |
| A love dream alone cannot die | X |
| Toil fools Sow your hopes in the furrows | U |
| Rich harvest of failure you'll reap | Z |
| Life's riddle is read the most truly | P |
| By men who but talk in their sleep | Z |
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| HE REMONSTRATES | U |
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| There stop That'll do yes I own it | A2 |
| But dear I was young then you know | D |
| I wrote that before we were married | B2 |
| Let's see why it's ten years ago | D |
| You remember that night at Drake's party | P |
| When you flirted with Dick all the time | C2 |
| I left in a state quite pathetic | D2 |
| And went home to scribble that rhyme | C2 |
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| What a boy I was then with my dreaming | V |
| And reading the riddle of life | E2 |
| You gave a good guess at its meaning | V |
| The night you said Yes little wife | E2 |
| One kiss for old times' sake my Dolly | P |
| That didn't seem much like a dream | F2 |
| Holloa something's wrong with the children | L |
| Those young ones do nothing but scream | F2 |
George Augustus Baker, Jr.
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