Matinal Musings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE DGCG DHIH JKAK LMNM OPQP DRSR TUNU AHCH VWXW NEYE ZA2B2A2 FC2D2C2 D2E2NE2 CHTH F2EAE| Ten o'clock Well I'm sure I can't help it | A |
| I'm up go away from the door | B |
| Now children I'll speak to your mother | C |
| If you pound there like that any more | B |
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| How tired I do feel Where's that cushion | D |
| I don't want to move from this chair | E |
| I wish Marie'd make her appearance | F |
| I really can't do my own hair | E |
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| I wish I'd not danced quite so often | D |
| I knew I'd feel tired but it's hard | G |
| To refuse a magnificent dancer | C |
| If you have a place left on your card | G |
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| I was silly to wear that green satin | D |
| It's a shame that I've spotted it so | H |
| All down the front breadth it's just ruined | I |
| No trimming will hide that I know | H |
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| That's me Have a costume imported | J |
| And spoil it the very first night | K |
| I might make an overskirt of it | A |
| That shade looks so lovely with white | K |
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| How horrid my eyes look Good gracious | L |
| I hope that I didn't catch cold | M |
| Sitting out on the stairs with Will Stacy | N |
| If Ma knew that wouldn't she scold | M |
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| She says he's so fast well who isn't | O |
| Dear where is Marie how it rains | P |
| I don't care he's real nice and handsome | Q |
| And his talk sounds as if he'd some brains | P |
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| I do wonder what is the reason | D |
| That good men are all like Joe Price | R |
| So poky and stiff and conceited | S |
| And fast ones are always so nice | R |
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| Just see how Joe acted last evening | T |
| He didn't come near me at all | U |
| Because I danced twice with Will Stacy | N |
| That night at the Charity ball | U |
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| I didn't care two pins to do it | A |
| But Joe said I mustn't and so | H |
| I just did he isn't my master | C |
| Nor sha'n't be I'd like him to know | H |
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| I don't think he looked at me even | V |
| Though just to please him I wore green | W |
| And I'd saved him three elegant dances | X |
| I wouldn't have acted so mean | W |
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| The way he went on with Nell Hadley | N |
| Dear me just as if I would care | E |
| I'd like to see those two get married | Y |
| They'd make a congenial pair | E |
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| I'm getting disgusted with parties | Z |
| I think I shall stop going out | A2 |
| What's the use of this fussing for people | B2 |
| I don't care the least bit about | A2 |
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| I did think that Joe had some sense once | F |
| But my he's just like all the men | C2 |
| And the way that I've gone on about him | D2 |
| Just see if I do it again | C2 |
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| Only wait till the next time I see him | D2 |
| I'll pay him back wont I be cool | E2 |
| I've a good mind to drop him completely | N |
| I'll yes I will go back to school | E2 |
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| The bell who can that be I wonder | C |
| Let's see I declare why it's Joe | H |
| How long they are keeping him waiting | T |
| Good gracious why don't the girl go | H |
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| Yes say I'll be down in a minute | F2 |
| Quick Marie and do up my hair | E |
| Not that bow the green one Joe likes it | A |
| How slow you are I'll pin it there | E |
George Augustus Baker, Jr.
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