Le Dernier Jour D'un Condamnë© Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDED FGCGEHCH IJKJLMLM FNCNCOPO QRLRCFCF| Old coat for some three or four seasons | A |
| We've been jolly comrades but now | B |
| We part old companion forever | C |
| To fate and the fashion I bow | B |
| You'd look well enough at a dinner | C |
| I'd wear you with pride at a ball | D |
| But I'm dressing to night for a wedding | E |
| My own and you'd not do at all | D |
| - | |
| You've too many wine stains about you | F |
| You're scented too much with cigars | G |
| When the gas light shines full on your collar | C |
| It glitters with myriad stars | G |
| That wouldn't look well at my wedding | E |
| They'd seem inappropriate there | H |
| Nell doesn't use diamond powder | C |
| She tells me it ruins the hair | H |
| - | |
| You've been out on Cozzens' piazza | I |
| Too late when the evenings were damp | J |
| When the moon beams were silvering Cro'nest | K |
| And the lights were all out in the camp | J |
| You've rested on highly oiled stairways | L |
| Too often when sweet eyes were bright | M |
| And somebody's ball dress not Nellie's | L |
| Flowed 'round you in rivers of white | M |
| - | |
| There's a reprobate looseness about you | F |
| Should I wear you to night I believe | N |
| As I come with my bride from the altar | C |
| You'd laugh in your wicked old sleeve | N |
| When you felt there the tremulous pressure | C |
| Of her hand in its delicate glove | O |
| That is telling me shyly but proudly | P |
| Her trust is as deep as her love | O |
| - | |
| So go to your grave in the wardrobe | Q |
| And furnish a feast for the moth | R |
| Nell's glove shall betray its sweet secrets | L |
| To younger more innocent cloth | R |
| 'Tis time to put on your successor | C |
| It's made in a fashion that's new | F |
| Old coat I'm afraid it will never | C |
| Sit as easily on me as you | F |
George Augustus Baker, Jr.
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Le Dernier Jour D'un Condamnë© poem by George Augustus Baker, Jr.
Best Poems of George Augustus Baker, Jr.