Melancholetta Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD BDBDBD DEDEDE FGFGFG HIHIHI DIDIDI BEBJBE KDKDKD DEDEDE GIGIGI JBJBJ DIDIDI| With saddest music all day long | A |
| She soothed her secret sorrow | B |
| At night she sighed I fear 'twas wrong | A |
| Such cheerful words to borrow | B |
| Dearest a sweeter sadder song | A |
| I'll sing to thee to morrow | B |
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| I thanked her but I could not say | C |
| That I was glad to hear it | D |
| I left the house at break of day | C |
| And did not venture near it | D |
| Till time I hoped had worn away | C |
| Her grief for nought could cheer it | D |
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| My dismal sister Couldst thou know | B |
| The wretched home thou keepest | D |
| Thy brother drowned in daily woe | B |
| Is thankful when thou sleepest | D |
| For if I laugh however low | B |
| When thou'rt awake thou weepest | D |
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| I took my sister t'other day | D |
| Excuse the slang expression | E |
| To Sadler's Wells to see the play | D |
| In hopes the new impression | E |
| Might in her thoughts from grave to gay | D |
| Effect some slight digression | E |
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| I asked three gay young dogs from town | F |
| To join us in our folly | G |
| Whose mirth I thought might serve to drown | F |
| My sister's melancholy | G |
| The lively Jones the sportive Brown | F |
| And Robinson the jolly | G |
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| The maid announced the meal in tones | H |
| That I myself had taught her | I |
| Meant to allay my sister's moans | H |
| Like oil on troubled water | I |
| I rushed to Jones the lively Jones | H |
| And begged him to escort her | I |
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| Vainly he strove with ready wit | D |
| To joke about the weather | I |
| To ventilate the last 'ON DIT' | D |
| To quote the price of leather | I |
| She groaned Here I and Sorrow sit | D |
| Let us lament together | I |
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| I urged You're wasting time you know | B |
| Delay will spoil the venison | E |
| My heart is wasted with my woe | B |
| There is no rest in Venice on | J |
| The Bridge of Sighs she quoted low | B |
| From Byron and from Tennyson | E |
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| I need not tell of soup and fish | K |
| In solemn silence swallowed | D |
| The sobs that ushered in each dish | K |
| And its departure followed | D |
| Nor yet my suicidal wish | K |
| To BE the cheese I hollowed | D |
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| Some desperate attempts were made | D |
| To start a conversation | E |
| Madam the sportive Brown essayed | D |
| Which kind of recreation | E |
| Hunting or fishing have you made | D |
| Your special occupation | E |
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| Her lips curved downwards instantly | G |
| As if of india rubber | I |
| Hounds IN FULL CRY I like said she | G |
| Oh how I longed to snub her | I |
| Of fish a whale's the one for me | G |
| IT IS SO FULL OF BLUBBER | I |
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| The night's performance was King John | J |
| It's dull she wept and so so | B |
| Awhile I let her tears flow on | J |
| She said they soothed her woe so | B |
| At length the curtain rose upon | J |
| 'Bombastes Furioso ' | - |
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| In vain we roared in vain we tried | D |
| To rouse her into laughter | I |
| Her pensive glances wandered wide | D |
| From orchestra to rafter | I |
| TIER UPON TIER she said and sighed | D |
| And silence followed after | I |
Lewis Carroll
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