Retrospection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCBC DADAEAEA FGFCHIHI JKJKLAMAN OPOPQRS QRT| I'd wandered for a week or more | A |
| Through hills and dells and doleful green'ry | A |
| Lodging at any carnal door | A |
| Sustaining life on pork and scenery | A |
| A weary scribe I'd just let slip | B |
| My collar for a short vacation | C |
| And started on a walking trip | B |
| That cheapest form of dissipation | C |
| - | |
| And vilest Oh confess my pen | D |
| That I prosaic rather hate your | A |
| Ode to a Sky lark sort of men | D |
| I really am not fond of Nature | A |
| Mad longing for a decent meal | E |
| And decent clothing overcame me | A |
| There came a blister on my heel | E |
| I gave it up and who can blame me | A |
| - | |
| Then wrote my Pulse of Nature's Heart | F |
| Which I procured some little cash on | G |
| And quickly packed me to depart | F |
| In search of gilded haunts of fashion | C |
| Which I might puff at column rates | H |
| To please my host and meet my reckoning | I |
| Base is the slave who hesitates | H |
| When wealth and pleasure both are beckoning | I |
| - | |
| I sought I found Among the swells | J |
| I had my share of small successes | K |
| Made languid love to languid belles | J |
| And penn'd descriptions of their dresses | K |
| Ah Millionairess Millicent | L |
| How fair you were How you adored me | A |
| How many tender hours we spent | M |
| And oh beloved how you bored me | A |
| APRIL | N |
| - | |
| Is not that fragmentary bit | O |
| Of my young verse a perfect prism | P |
| Where worldly knowledge pleasant wit | O |
| True humor kindly cynicism | P |
| Refracted by the frolic glass | Q |
| Of Fancy play with change incessant | R |
| JUNE | S |
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| Great C sar What a sweet young ass | Q |
| I must have been when adolescent | R |
| AUGUST | T |
George Augustus Baker, Jr.
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