Chinese Lanterns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDC EFEFGGHG IJIJHHKH LMLMNNCN OPOPQQRS TGTGCCUG| Through the windows on the park | A |
| Float the waltzes weirdly sweet | B |
| In the light and in the dark | A |
| Rings the chime of dancing feet | B |
| Mid the branches all a row | C |
| Fiery jewels gleam and glow | C |
| Dreamingly we walk beneath | D |
| Ah so slow | C |
| - | |
| All the air is full of love | E |
| Misty shadows wrap us round | F |
| Light below and dark above | E |
| Filled with softly surging sound | F |
| See the forehead of the Night | G |
| Garlanded with flowers of light | G |
| And her goblet crowned with wine | H |
| Golden bright | G |
| - | |
| Ah those deep alluring eyes | I |
| Quiet as a haunted lake | J |
| In their depths the passion lies | I |
| Half in slumber half awake | J |
| Lay thy warm white hand in mine | H |
| Let the fingers clasp and twine | H |
| While my eager panting heart | K |
| Beats 'gainst thine | H |
| - | |
| Bring thy velvet lips a near | L |
| Mine are hungry for a kiss | M |
| Gladly will I sate them dear | L |
| Closer closer this and this | M |
| On thy lips love's seal I lay | N |
| Nevermore to pass away | N |
| That was all last night you know | C |
| But to day | N |
| - | |
| Chinese lanterns hung in strings | O |
| Painted paper penny dips | P |
| Filled with roasted moths and things | O |
| Greasy with the tallow drips | P |
| Wet and torn with rusty wire | Q |
| Blackened by the dying fire | Q |
| Withered flowers trampled deep | R |
| In the mire | S |
| - | |
| Chinese lanterns Bernstein's band | T |
| Belladonna lily white | G |
| These made up the fairy land | T |
| Where I wandered all last night | G |
| Ruled in all its rosy glow | C |
| By a merry Queen you know | C |
| Jolly dancing laughing witching | U |
| Veuve Cliquot | G |
George Augustus Baker, Jr.
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