The Courtship Of The Future Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEDE FFFFFGFG HFHFIBIB JKJKLFLF BBB BFMFM IGIGLFLF MGMGFBFB LBLBNFNF AIBIBLMLM MGMG MGMG| HE | A |
| What is a kiss Why long ago | B |
| When pairs as we a wooing sat | C |
| They used to put their four lips so | B |
| And make a chirping noise like that | C |
| And strange to say the fools were pleased | D |
| A little went a long way then | E |
| A cheek lip grazed a finger squeezed | D |
| Was rapture to those ancient men | E |
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| Ah not for us the timid course | F |
| Of those old fashioned bill and cooers | F |
| One unit of our psychic force | F |
| Had squelched a thousand antique wooers | F |
| For us the god his chalice dips | F |
| In fountains fiercer deeper dearer | G |
| Than purling confluence of lips | F |
| That meet but bring the Souls no nearer | G |
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| Well 'twas but poverty at worst | H |
| Poor beggars how could they be choosers | F |
| Not yet upon the world had burst | H |
| Our Patent Mutual Blood Transfusers | F |
| Not yet had Science caught the clue | I |
| To joy self doubling squaring cubing | B |
| Nor taught to draw the whole soul through | I |
| A foot of gutta percha tubing | B |
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| Come Lulu bare the pearly arm | J |
| Now where the subtle blue shows keenest | K |
| I hang the duplex snake like charm | J |
| The latest by a new machinist | K |
| And see in turn above my wrist | L |
| I fix the blood compelling conduits | F |
| Ah this is what the old world missed | L |
| For all the lore of all its pundits | F |
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| I turn the tap I touch the spring | B |
| Hush Lulu hush our lives are blending | B |
| This new escapement's quite the thing | B |
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| And very well worth recommending | B |
| Oh circuit of commingling bliss | F |
| Oh bliss of mingling circulation | M |
| True love alone can merge like this | F |
| In one continuous pulsation | M |
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| Your swift life thrills me through and through | I |
| I wouldn't call the Queen my mother | G |
| Now you are I and I am you | I |
| And each of us is one another | G |
| Reciprocally influent | L |
| The wedded love tide flows between us | F |
| Ah this is what the old fables meant | L |
| For surely love our love is venous | F |
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| Now now your inmost life I know | M |
| How nobler far than mine and grander | G |
| For through my breast your feelings flow | M |
| And through my brain your thoughts meander | G |
| I feel a rush of high desires | F |
| With sweet domestic uses blending | B |
| As now I think of angel choirs | F |
| And now of stockings heaped for mending | B |
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| And see myself in light enshrined | L |
| An aureole my hat replacing | B |
| Now amorous yearnings half defined | L |
| With prudish scruples interlacing | B |
| Next cloudlike floats a snowy veil | N |
| And heavens above us what a trousseau | F |
| Come Lulu give me tale for tale | N |
| I'll keep transfusing till you do so | F |
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| SHE | A |
| Oh love this never can be you | I |
| The stream flows turbid melancholic | B |
| And heavy vapours dull me through | I |
| Dashed with a something alcoholic | B |
| The elective forces shrink apart | L |
| No answering raptures thrill and quicken | M |
| Strange feelings curdle at my heart | L |
| And in my veins vile memories thicken | M |
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| I feel an alien life in mine | M |
| It isn't I It isn't you Sir | G |
| This is the mood of Caroline | M |
| Oh don't tell me I know the brew Sir | G |
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| Nay nay it isn't the machine | M |
| This isn't you this isn't I Sir | G |
| It's the old story you have been | M |
| Transfusing elsewhere on the sly Sir | G |
James Brunton Stephens
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