The "stay-at-home's" Pëan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDAD EFGFHIJI KLMLANMN OPAPQPRP AQMQMMSM TMMMPMMM UQCQAVEV| The 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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