A Garden Party In The Temple Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDD EEFGGFHH IICJJCKL MMCNNCOO PQREERSS BBTUUTVV WWBXXBYC| On hospitable thoughts intent | A |
| To me the Inner Temple sent | A |
| An invitation | B |
| A garden party 'twas to be | C |
| And I accepted readily | C |
| And with elation | B |
| Good reason too but oft the seeds | D |
| Of reason flower in senseless deeds | D |
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| I stood as savage as a bear | E |
| For not a human being there | E |
| Knew I from Adam | F |
| I heard around in various tones | G |
| So glad to see you Mr Jones | G |
| Good morning Madam | F |
| It seemed so painfully absurd | H |
| To stand and never speak a word | H |
| - | |
| I brought my doom upon myself | I |
| And there I was upon the shelf | I |
| In melancholy | C |
| Why say you did I go at all | J |
| I once met Chloris at a ball | J |
| And in my folly | C |
| I went and suffered all this pain | K |
| In hopes to see her once again | L |
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| Of strawberries a pound at least | M |
| I ate and made myself a beast | M |
| With tea and sherry | C |
| And raspberries I ate and trembled | N |
| Until I felt that I resembled | N |
| Myself a berry | C |
| But 'twas the berry that at school | O |
| We used to call a gooseberry fool | O |
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| The I C R V F band droned on | P |
| While guests had come and guests had gone | Q |
| Since my arrival | R |
| My brow grew gloomier with despair | E |
| And on it sat the guilty air | E |
| Of a survival | R |
| Of some remorse for ancient crimes | S |
| Wrought in the pre historic times | S |
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| My seventh cup of tea was done | B |
| My seventh glass of wine begun | B |
| Then of her coming | T |
| I was aware nor shall forget | U |
| How she and that brown sherry set | U |
| My brains a humming | T |
| Well should I be rewarded soon | V |
| For all the weary afternoon | V |
| - | |
| Her eyes looked vaguely into mine | W |
| Without as much as half a sign | W |
| Of recognition | B |
| My heart my heart the blow was sore | X |
| But you have often been before | X |
| In this condition | B |
| As said the bard of old those eyes | Y |
| Are not my only Paradise G | C |
James Williams
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