How The Author Sometimes Dines Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBC DEDEFGFG| And now by your leave I will try to expound it | A |
| In truth as it is and the way that I found it | A |
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| My dinner sometimes like things transcendental | B |
| And things more substantial like women and wine | C |
| A thing is uncertain and quite accidental | B |
| And sometimes I wonder Oh where shall I dine | C |
| - | |
| It was when reflecting one evening of late | D |
| What tavern or hotel or dining room skinner | E |
| With table cloth dirty and dirtier plate | D |
| Would give me a nausea and call it a dinner | E |
| I met with Jack Merdle a name fully known | F |
| As good for a million in Stock gamblers' Street | G |
| Where none but a nabob or forger high flown | F |
| With bulls or with bears need look for a seat | G |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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