The "stay-at-home's" Pëan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDAD EFGFHIJI KLMLANMN OPAPQPRP AQMQMMSM TMMMPMMM UQCQAVEVThe evenings are damper and colder | A |
The maples and sumacs are red | B |
The wild Equinoctial is coming | C |
The flowers in the garden are dead | B |
The steamers are all overflowing | C |
The railroads are all loaded down | D |
And the beauties we've sighed for all Summer | A |
Are hurrying back into town | D |
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They come from the banks of the Hudson | E |
From the sands of the Branch and Cape May | F |
From the parlors of bright Saratoga | G |
From the dash of Niagara's spray | F |
From misty sea salt Narragansett | H |
From Mahopac's magical lake | I |
They come on their way to new conquests | J |
They're longing for more hearts to break | I |
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E'en Newport is dull and deserted | K |
Its billowy beaches no more | L |
Made bright with sweet ocean kissed faces | M |
Love's beacon lights set on the shore | L |
The rugged White Hills of New Hampshire | A |
The last of their lovers have seen | N |
The echoes are left to their slumbers | M |
No dainty feet thread the ravine | N |
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On West Point's delightful parade ground | O |
Sighs many a hapless cadet | P |
Who's basked through the long days of Summer | A |
In the smiles of a city coquette | P |
And now the incipient hero | Q |
Beholds his enchantress depart | P |
With the spoils of her lightly won triumph | R |
His buttons as well as his heart | P |
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Come dry your eyes Grandmother Nature | A |
They care not a whit for your woe | Q |
The city is calling her daughters | M |
We can't spare them longer they know | Q |
Our beautiful tender voiced darlings | M |
With the blue of the deep Summer skies | M |
And the glow of the bright Summer sunshine | S |
Entrapped in their mischievous eyes | M |
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We know their expenses are awful | T |
That horror unspeakable fills | M |
The souls of unfortunate fathers | M |
Who foot up their dressmaker's bills | M |
That they'd barter their souls for French candy | P |
That diamonds ruin their peace | M |
That they rave over middle aged actors | M |
And in other respects are well geese | M |
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We laugh at them boys but we love them | U |
For under their nonsense we know | Q |
They've hearts that are honest and loving | C |
And souls that are whiter than snow | Q |
So out with that bottle of Roederer | A |
Large glasses boys Up goes the cork | V |
All charged To the belles of creation | E |
The glorious girls of New York | V |
George Augustus Baker, Jr.
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