The Ball-room Belle. (music By Horn.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAB DEDDE FGFFG HIHHI| The moon and all her starry train | A |
| Were fading from the morning sky | B |
| When home the ball room belle again | C |
| Returned with throbbing pulse and brain | A |
| Flushed cheek and tearful eye | B |
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| The plume that danced above her brow | D |
| The gem that sparkled in her zone | E |
| The scarf of spangled leaf and bough | D |
| Were laid aside they mocked her now | D |
| When desolate and lone | E |
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| That night how many hearts she won | F |
| The reigning belle she could not stir | G |
| But like the planets round the sun | F |
| Her suitors followed all but one | F |
| One all the world to her | G |
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| And she had lost him Marvel not | H |
| That lady's eyes with tears were wet | I |
| Though love by man is soon forgot | H |
| It never yet was woman's lot | H |
| To love and to forget | I |
George Pope Morris
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