De Lunatico Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DEDEFBFB GHGHIHIH JKJKLELE MNMNOPOP| The squadrons of the sun still hold | A |
| The western hills their armor glances | B |
| Their crimson banners wide unfold | A |
| Low levelled lie their golden lances | B |
| The shadows lurk along the shore | C |
| Where as our row boat lightly passes | B |
| The ripples startled by our oar | C |
| Hide murmuring 'neath the hanging grasses | B |
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| Your eyes are downcast for the light | D |
| Is lingering on your lids forgetting | E |
| How late it is for one last sight | D |
| Of you the sun delays his setting | E |
| One hand droops idly from the boat | F |
| And round the white and swaying fingers | B |
| Like half blown lilies gone afloat | F |
| The amorous water toying lingers | B |
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| I see you smile behind your book | G |
| Your gentle eyes concealing under | H |
| Their drooping lids a laughing look | G |
| That's partly fun and partly wonder | H |
| That I a man of presence grave | I |
| Who fight for bread 'neath Themis' banner | H |
| Should all at once begin to rave | I |
| In this I trust Aldrichian manner | H |
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| They say our lake is sad but true | J |
| The mill pond of a Yankee village | K |
| Its swelling shores devoted to | J |
| The various forms of kitchen tillage | K |
| That you're no more a maiden fair | L |
| And I no lover young and glowing | E |
| Just an old sober married pair | L |
| Who after tea have gone out rowing | E |
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| Ah dear when memories old and sweet | M |
| Have fooled my reason thus believe me | N |
| Your eyes can only help the cheat | M |
| Your smile more thoroughly deceive me | N |
| I think it well that men dear wife | O |
| Are sometimes with such madness smitten | P |
| Else little joy would be in life | O |
| And little poetry be written | P |
George Augustus Baker, Jr.
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