Per Aspera Ad Astra Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDEFGFG HIHIJKJK FLMLDNDN| A canvas back duck rarely roasted between us | A |
| A bottle of Chambertin worthy of praise | B |
| Less noble a wine at our age would bemean us | A |
| A salad of celery en mayonnaise | B |
| With the oysters we've eaten fresh plump and delicious | A |
| Naught left of them now but a dream and the shells | C |
| No better souper e'en Lucullus could wish us | A |
| Why even our waiter regards us as swells | C |
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| Your dress is a marvel your jewels show finely | D |
| Your friends in the circle all envied your box | E |
| You say Lilli Lehman sang quite too divinely | D |
| I know I can't lose on that last deal in stocks | E |
| Without waits our footman to call for our carriage | F |
| Gad how he must hate us out there in the cold | G |
| We rode in a hack on the day of our marriage | F |
| Number two forty six I was rolling in gold | G |
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| For I'd quite fifty dollars and don't you remember | H |
| We drove down to Taylor's a long cherished dream | I |
| How grandly I ordered just think in December | H |
| Some cake and two plates of vanilla ice cream | I |
| And how we enjoyed it Your glance was the proudest | J |
| Among the proud beauties your face the most fair | K |
| I'm rather afraid too your laugh was the loudest | J |
| I know we shocked every one we didn't care | K |
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| Now we'd care a great deal with two sons at college | F |
| And daughters just out whose sneers make you wince | L |
| We've tasted the fruit of Society's knowledge | M |
| I don't think we've quite enjoyed anything since | L |
| All through dear Now don't wipe your mouth with the doily | D |
| They're really not careful at all with their wine | N |
| It wasn't half warmed the salad was oily | D |
| And I don't think the duck was remarkably fine | N |
George Augustus Baker, Jr.
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