Les Enfants Perdus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCB DEFGHE IDJJJD KJLJLJ MNJJJN GDJJJD ODPPPD| What has become of the children all | A |
| How have the darlings vanished | B |
| Fashion's pied piper with magical air | C |
| Has wooed them away with their flaxen hair | C |
| And laughing eyes we don't know where | C |
| And no one can tell where they're banished | B |
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| Where are the children cries Madam Haut ton | D |
| Allow me my sons and daughters | E |
| Fetch them Annette What madam those | F |
| Children such exquisite belles and beaux | G |
| True they're in somewhat shorter clothes | H |
| Than the most of Dame Fashion's supporters | E |
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| Good day Master Eddy Young man about town | I |
| A merchant down in the swamp's son | D |
| In a neat little book he makes neat little bets | J |
| He doesn't believe in the shop cigarettes | J |
| But does his own rolling and has for his pets | J |
| Miss Markham and Lydia Thompson | D |
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| He and his comrades can drink champagne | K |
| Like so many juvenile Comuses | J |
| If you want to insult him just talk of boys' play | L |
| Why even on billiards he's almost blas | J |
| Drops in at Delmonico's three times a day | L |
| And is known at Jerry Thomas's | J |
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| And here comes Miss Agnes Good morning Bon jour | M |
| Now isn't that vision alarming | N |
| Silk with panier and puffs and lace | J |
| Decking a figure of corsetted grace | J |
| Her words are minced and her spoiled young face | J |
| Wears a simper far from charming | N |
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| Thirteen only a month ago | G |
| Notice her conversation | D |
| Fashion that bonnet of Nellie Perroy's | J |
| And now in a low confidential voice | J |
| Of Helena's treatment of Tommy Joyce | J |
| Aged twelve that's the last flirtation | D |
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| What has become of the children then | O |
| How can an answer be given | D |
| Folly filling each curly head | P |
| Premature vices childhood dead | P |
| Blighted blossoms can it be said | P |
| Of such is the kingdom of heaven | D |
George Augustus Baker, Jr.
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