A Garden Party In The Temple Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDD EEFGGFHH IICJJCKL MMCNNCOO PQREERSS BBTUUTVV WWBXXBYC

On hospitable thoughts intentA
To me the Inner Temple sentA
An invitationB
A garden party 'twas to beC
And I accepted readilyC
And with elationB
Good reason too but oft the seedsD
Of reason flower in senseless deedsD
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I stood as savage as a bearE
For not a human being thereE
Knew I from AdamF
I heard around in various tonesG
So glad to see you Mr JonesG
Good morning MadamF
It seemed so painfully absurdH
To stand and never speak a wordH
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I brought my doom upon myselfI
And there I was upon the shelfI
In melancholyC
Why say you did I go at allJ
I once met Chloris at a ballJ
And in my follyC
I went and suffered all this painK
In hopes to see her once againL
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Of strawberries a pound at leastM
I ate and made myself a beastM
With tea and sherryC
And raspberries I ate and trembledN
Until I felt that I resembledN
Myself a berryC
But 'twas the berry that at schoolO
We used to call a gooseberry foolO
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The I C R V F band droned onP
While guests had come and guests had goneQ
Since my arrivalR
My brow grew gloomier with despairE
And on it sat the guilty airE
Of a survivalR
Of some remorse for ancient crimesS
Wrought in the pre historic timesS
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My seventh cup of tea was doneB
My seventh glass of wine begunB
Then of her comingT
I was aware nor shall forgetU
How she and that brown sherry setU
My brains a hummingT
Well should I be rewarded soonV
For all the weary afternoonV
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Her eyes looked vaguely into mineW
Without as much as half a signW
Of recognitionB
My heart my heart the blow was soreX
But you have often been beforeX
In this conditionB
As said the bard of old those eyesY
Are not my only Paradise GC

James Williams



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