A Smoke Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEE A CCFFGGEE A HHIIJJEE| I | A |
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| O others may boast of their pleasures galore | B |
| The miser with rapture may count o'er his store | B |
| And some may imagine great happiness there | C |
| In the gay shining beam of Society's glare | C |
| But best of all comforts a feller can know | D |
| While wintry winds whistle and fast flies the snow | D |
| Is a pipe after supper by a bright blazing fire | E |
| Encircled with ringlets that curl high and higher | E |
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| II | A |
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| O doctors may tell you and others declare | C |
| It'll shorten your days and your heart will impair | C |
| That nicotine poison will flow through your veins | F |
| And nervous distraction will rack with its pains | F |
| But what cares a feller in slippers and gown | G |
| When wintry winds whistle and snow's pouring down | G |
| With papers and books and his feet near the fire | E |
| Encircled with ringlets that curl high and higher | E |
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| III | A |
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| O rare are the fancies contentment and bliss | H |
| That drive away care in an hour such as this | H |
| When the ills of this life and the things that provoke | I |
| Are lost for the while in the blue curling smoke | I |
| Of a pipe and tobacco that's yellow as gold | J |
| And raptures supernal the senses unfold | J |
| O give me a chair by a bright blazing fire | E |
| And sweet smelling ringlets that curl high and higher | E |
George W. Doneghy
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