Atalanta In Camden -town Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBCDC BEFGHG ICICJC KIKILI MNMNON PIPICI IOIO O QCQCNCA | |
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AY 'twas here on this spot | B |
In that summer of yore | C |
Atalanta did not | B |
Vote my presence a bore | C |
Nor reply to my tenderest talk She had | D |
heard all that nonsense before | C |
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She'd the brooch I had bought | B |
And the necklace and sash on | E |
And her heart as I thought | F |
Was alive to my passion | G |
And she'd done up her hair in the style that | H |
the Empress had brought into fashion | G |
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I had been to the play | I |
With my pearl of a Peri | C |
But for all I could say | I |
She declared she was weary | C |
That the place was so crowded and hot and | J |
she couldn't abide that Dundreary | C |
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Then I thought Lucky boy | K |
'Tis for YOU that she whimpers | I |
And I noted with joy | K |
Those sensational simpers | I |
And I said This is scrumptious a | L |
phrase I had learned from the Devonshire shrimpers | I |
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And I vowed 'Twill be said | M |
I'm a fortunate fellow | N |
When the breakfast is spread | M |
When the topers are mellow | N |
When the foam of the bride cake is white | O |
and the fierce orange blossoms are yellow | N |
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O that languishing yawn | P |
O those eloquent eyes | I |
I was drunk with the dawn | P |
Of a splendid surmise | I |
I was stung by a look I was slain by a tear | C |
by a tempest of sighs | I |
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Then I whispered I see | I |
The sweet secret thou keepest | O |
And the yearning for ME | I |
That thou wistfully weepest | O |
And the question is 'License or Banns ' | - |
though undoubtedly Banns are the cheapest | O |
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Be my Hero said I | Q |
And let ME be Leander | C |
But I lost her reply | Q |
Something ending with gander | C |
For the omnibus rattled so loud that no | N |
mortal could quite understand her | C |
Lewis Carroll
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