Private Theatricals Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDD EFGFHHH IJKLMMM NONOPPP QPQCRR| A quite convincing axiom | A |
| Is 'Life is like a play' | B |
| For turning back its pages some | A |
| Few dog eared years away | C |
| I find where I | D |
| Committed my | D |
| Love tale with brackets where to sigh | D |
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| I feel an idle interest | E |
| To read again the page | F |
| I enter as a lover dressed | G |
| At twenty years of age | F |
| And play the part | H |
| With throbbing heart | H |
| And all an actor's glowing art | H |
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| And she who plays my Lady love | I |
| Excels Her loving glance | J |
| Has power her audience to move | K |
| I am her audience | L |
| Her acting tact | M |
| To tell the fact | M |
| 'Brings down the house' in every act | M |
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| And often we defy the curse | N |
| Of storms and thunder showers | O |
| To meet together and rehearse | N |
| This little play of ours | O |
| I think when she | P |
| 'Makes love' to me | P |
| She kisses very naturally | P |
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| Yes it's convincing rather | Q |
| That 'Life is like a play' | P |
| I am playing 'Heavy Father' | Q |
| In a 'Screaming Farce' to day | C |
| That so 'brings down | R |
| The house ' I frown | R |
| And fain would 'ring the curtain down ' | - |
James Whitcomb Riley
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