That Old Straw Hat Of Mine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDD EEFF GGDD H IIJJ H KKDD H LLEE H MMDD| With Apologies To Riley | A |
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| As one who dreams at evening o'er the new hats that he's worn | B |
| And muses on the better times that once to him were known | C |
| So I turn the leaves of fancy till in shadowy design | D |
| I see the faded ribbon on that old straw hat of mine | D |
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| The firelight seems to mock me as the ruddy flames arise | E |
| And I turn about to rest me of the dazzle in my eyes | E |
| And I ponder then in silence save a sigh that seems to yoke | F |
| Its fate with my condition and to vanish like the smoke | F |
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| With fondest recollection the loving thoughts that start | G |
| Into being are but feelings from the bottom of my heart | G |
| And to wear the new hats over is a luxury divine | D |
| Till my truant fancy wanders with that old straw hat of mine | D |
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| Now I hear without my chamber like a fluttering of wings | I |
| The rustling of the autumn wind as through the trees it sings | I |
| And I feel no twinge of conscience to deny me any scheme | J |
| That will bring to me a hat of which I now can only dream | J |
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| In fact to speak in earnest if I could work a charm | K |
| I'd try it on old Isaacs 'twouldn't do him much of harm | K |
| And I'd find an extra flavor in memory's mellow wine | D |
| When I thought of how I swapped him that old straw hat of mine | D |
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| A thing of real beauty with a shape of airy grace | L |
| Floats out of Isaacs' storehouse as the genii from the vase | L |
| And oh I gaze upon it with a pair of loving eyes | E |
| As glowing as the summer and as tender as the skies | E |
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| But ah my dream is broken when I gaze upon that chair | M |
| For my eyes are now wide open and the same old hat is there | M |
| And reluctantly and sadly all my visions I resign | D |
| To know that I must wear again that old straw hat of mine | D |
George W. Doneghy
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