Lightning-bugs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJKLMK NNBJOB PPIIII LLHQQH| Around my vine wreathed portico | A |
| At evening there's a perfect glow | A |
| Of little lights a flashing | B |
| As if the stellar bodies had | C |
| From super heat grown hyper mad | C |
| And spend their ire in clashing | B |
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| As frisky each as shooting star | D |
| These tiny electricians are | D |
| The Lampyrine Linnaean | E |
| Or lightning bugs that sparkling gleam | F |
| Like scintillations in a dream | F |
| Of something empyrean | E |
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| They brush my face light up my hair | G |
| My garments touch dart everywhere | G |
| And if I try to catch them | H |
| They're quicker than the wicked flea | I |
| And then I wonder how 'twould be | I |
| To have a dress to match them | H |
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| To be a princess in disguise | J |
| And wear a robe of fireflies | J |
| All strung and wove together | K |
| And be the cynosure of all | L |
| At Madame Haut ton's carnival | M |
| In fashion's gayest feather | K |
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| So sudden falls upon the grass | N |
| The overpow'ring light of gas | N |
| And through the lattice streaming | B |
| As wearily I close my eyes | J |
| Brief are the moments that suffice | O |
| To reach the land of dreaming | B |
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| Now at the ball superbly dressed | P |
| As I suppose to eclipse the rest | P |
| Within an alcove shady | I |
| A brilliant flame I hope to be | I |
| While all admire and envy me | I |
| The bright electric lady | I |
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| But ah they never shine at all | L |
| My eyes ignite I leave the hall | L |
| For wrathful tears have filled them | H |
| I could have crushed them on the spot | Q |
| The bugs I mean and quite forgot | Q |
| That stringing them had killed them | H |
Hattie Howard
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