A Garden Party In The Temple Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDD EEFGGFHH IICJJCKL MMCNNCOO PQREERSS BBTUUTVV WWBXXBYCOn 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 |
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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 |
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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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