City Lyrics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCBCB CDCDBEBE FGFGFHIJ FKFKFKFK| Argument The poet starts from the Bowling Green to take his sweetheart up to Thompson's for an ice or if she is inclined for more ices He confines his muse to matters which any every day man and young woman may see in taking the same promenade for the same innocent refreshment | A |
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| Come out love the night is enchanting | B |
| The moon hangs just over Broadway | C |
| The stars are all lighted and panting | B |
| Hot weather up there I dare say | C |
| 'Tis seldom that coolness entices | C |
| And love is no better for chilling | B |
| But come up to Thompson's for ices | C |
| And cool your warm heart for a shilling | B |
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| What perfume comes balmily o'er us | C |
| Mint juleps from City Hotel | D |
| A loafer is smoking before us | C |
| A nasty cigar by the smell | D |
| Oh Woman thou secret past knowing | B |
| Like lilachs that grow by the wall | E |
| You breathe every air that is going | B |
| Yet gather but sweetness from all | E |
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| On on by St Paul's and the Astor | F |
| Religion seems very ill plann'd | G |
| For one day we list to the pastor | F |
| For six days we list to the band | G |
| The sermon may dwell on the future | F |
| The organ your pulses may calm | H |
| When pest that remember'd cachucha | I |
| Upsets both the sermon and psalm | J |
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| Oh pity the love that must utter | F |
| While goes a swift omnibus by | K |
| Though sweet is I scream when the flutter | F |
| Of fans shows thermometers high | K |
| But if what I bawl or I mutter | F |
| Falls into your ear but to die | K |
| Oh the dew that falls into the gutter | F |
| Is not more unhappy than I | K |
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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