A Leap Year Episode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDCAEEFGHIHIJKLM NLLINNINLLINONONPIII QNNRIIRQQQSSQIQIQQTT| Such oranges so fresh and sweet | A |
| So large and lovely and so cheap | B |
| They lay in one delicious heap | B |
| And added to the sumptuous feast | C |
| For each and all in taste expert | D |
| The acme of all fine dessert | D |
| So singling out the very least | C |
| As in itself an ample treat | A |
| While sparkling repartee and jest | E |
| Exhilarated host and guest | E |
| Of rarity so delicate | F |
| In dreamy reverie I ate | G |
| By magic pinions as it were | H |
| Transported from this realm of snows | I |
| To be a happy sojourner | H |
| Away down where the orange grows | I |
| Amid the bloom the verdure and | J |
| The beauty of that tropic land | K |
| While redolence seemed wafted in | L |
| From orchard groves of Mandarin | M |
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| In dinner costume a la mode | N |
| Expressing from the spongy skin | L |
| The nectar that ran down her chin | L |
| In little rills of lusciousness | I |
| Sat Maud the beautiful coquette | N |
| Her dainty mouth like two lips wet | N |
| With morning dew her crimson dress | I |
| A sad discoloration showed | N |
| Where orange juice it was a sin | L |
| A polka dot had painted in | L |
| Which moved the roguish girl to say | I |
| Half ruefully half decollete | N |
| I'm glad it's Leap Year now for I | O |
| Her voice was like a moistened lute | N |
| Shall wear the flowers by and by | O |
| I do not like this leaky fruit | N |
| And looking straight and saucily | P |
| At cousin Ned her vis a vis | I |
| While Will who never dared propose | I |
| Was blushing like a red red rose | I |
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| The company was large and she | Q |
| Touched elbows with the exquisite | N |
| Gay Archibald who took her wit | N |
| And pertness all as meant for him | R |
| Who thereby lifted some degrees | I |
| Above less favored devotees | I |
| With rainbow sails began to trim | R |
| His craft of sweet felicity | Q |
| So mirth in reckless afterlude | Q |
| Convulsed the merry multitude | Q |
| Who laughed at Archie's self esteem | S |
| And pitied Will's long cherished dream | S |
| While all declared for her and Ned | Q |
| His face was like a silver tray | I |
| The wedding banquet should be spread | Q |
| Before a twelvemonth passed away | I |
| But ah the sequel blind were we | Q |
| To woman and her strategy | Q |
| For he so long afraid to speak | T |
| Bore off the bride within a week | T |
Hattie Howard
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