A Delicious Interruption Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHII J KKLMNNI| All were quite gracious in their plaudits of | A |
| Bud's Fairy but another stir above | A |
| That murmur was occasioned by a sweet | B |
| Young lady caller from a neighboring street | B |
| Who rose reluctantly to say good night | C |
| To all the pleasant friends and the delight | C |
| Experienced as she had promised sure | D |
| To be back home by nine Then paused demure | D |
| And wondered was it very dark Oh no | E |
| She had come by herself and she could go | E |
| Without an escort Ah you sweet girls all | F |
| What young gallant but comes at such a call | F |
| Your most abject of slaves Why there were three | G |
| Young men and several men of family | G |
| Contesting for the honor which at last | H |
| Was given to Cousin Rufus and he cast | H |
| A kingly look behind him as the pair | I |
| Vanished with laughter in the darkness there | I |
| - | |
| As order was restored with everything | J |
| Suggestive in its way of 'romancing ' | - |
| Some one observed that now would be the chance | K |
| For Noey to relate a circumstance | K |
| That he the very specious rumor went | L |
| Had been eye witness of by accident | M |
| Noey turned pippin crimson then turned pale | N |
| As death then turned to flee without avail | N |
| ' There head him off Now hold him in his chair | I |
| Tell us the Serenade tale now Noey There ' | - |
James Whitcomb Riley
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