A Blue Valentine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCAADEF BGHDBEHEBCEIAECEEEBA CJECBBEKBCLBCC BECEEABBBMCEBBNBA| For Aline | A |
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| Monsignore | B |
| Right Reverend Bishop Valentinus | C |
| Sometime of Interamna which is called Ferni | A |
| Now of the delightful Court of Heaven | A |
| I respectfully salute you | D |
| I genuflect | E |
| And I kiss your episcopal ring | F |
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| It is not Monsignore | B |
| The fragrant memory of your holy life | G |
| Nor that of your shining and joyous martyrdom | H |
| Which causes me now to address you | D |
| But since this is your august festival Monsignore | B |
| It seems appropriate to me to state | E |
| According to a venerable and agreeable custom | H |
| That I love a beautiful lady | E |
| Her eyes Monsignore | B |
| Are so blue that they put lovely little blue reflections | C |
| On everything that she looks at | E |
| Such as a wall | I |
| Or the moon | A |
| Or my heart | E |
| It is like the light coming through blue stained glass | C |
| Yet not quite like it | E |
| For the blueness is not transparent | E |
| Only translucent | E |
| Her soul's light shines through | B |
| But her soul cannot be seen | A |
| It is something elusive whimsical tender wanton infantile wise | C |
| And noble | J |
| She wears Monsignore a blue garment | E |
| Made in the manner of the Japanese | C |
| It is very blue | B |
| I think that her eyes have made it more blue | B |
| Sweetly staining it | E |
| As the pressure of her body has graciously given it form | K |
| Loving her Monsignore | B |
| I love all her attributes | C |
| But I believe | L |
| That even if I did not love her | B |
| I would love the blueness of her eyes | C |
| And her blue garment made in the manner of the Japanese | C |
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| Monsignore | B |
| I have never before troubled you with a request | E |
| The saints whose ears I chiefly worry with my pleas | C |
| are the most exquisite and maternal Brigid | E |
| Gallant Saint Stephen who puts fire in my blood | E |
| And your brother bishop my patron | A |
| The generous and jovial Saint Nicholas of Bari | B |
| But of your courtesy Monsignore | B |
| Do me this favour | B |
| When you this morning make your way | M |
| To the Ivory Throne that bursts into bloom with roses | C |
| because of her who sits upon it | E |
| When you come to pay your devoir to Our Lady | B |
| I beg you say to her | B |
| Madame a poor poet one of your singing servants yet on earth | N |
| Has asked me to say that at this moment he is especially grateful to you | B |
| For wearing a blue gown | A |
Joyce Kilmer
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