The Sunset Years Of Samuel Shy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDAEEFFFEGGHHHIA JAA EKKLGGDMMNOOPQQLRR CKKKMMCDD| Master I may be | A |
| But not of my fate | B |
| Now come the kisses too many too late | B |
| Tell me O Parcae | C |
| For fain would I know | D |
| Where were these kisses three decades ago | D |
| Girls there were plenty | A |
| Mint julep girls beer girls | E |
| Gay younger married and headstrong career girls | E |
| The girls of my friends | F |
| And the wives of my friends | F |
| Some smugly settled and some at loose ends | F |
| Sad girls serene girls | E |
| Girls breathless and turbulent | G |
| Debs cosmopolitan matrons suburbulent | G |
| All of them amiable | H |
| All of them cordial | H |
| Innocent rousers of instincts primordial | H |
| But even though health and wealth | I |
| Hadn't yet missed me | A |
| None of them | J |
| Not even Jenny | A |
| Once kissed me | A |
| - | |
| These very same girls | E |
| Who with me have grown older | K |
| Now freely relax with a head on my shoulder | K |
| And now come the kisses | L |
| A flood in full spate | G |
| The meaningless kisses too many too late | G |
| They kiss me hello | D |
| They kiss me goodbye | M |
| Should I offer a light there's a kiss for reply | M |
| They kiss me at weddings | N |
| They kiss me at wakes | O |
| The drop of a hat is less than it takes | O |
| They kiss me at cocktails | P |
| They kiss me at bridge | Q |
| It's all automatic like slapping a midge | Q |
| The sound of their kisses | L |
| Is loud in my ears | R |
| Like the locusts that swarm every seventeen years | R |
| - | |
| I'm arthritic dyspeptic | C |
| Potentially ulcery | K |
| And weary of kisses by custom compulsory | K |
| Should my dear ones commit me | K |
| As senile demential | M |
| It's from kisses perfunctory inconsequential | M |
| Answer O Parcae | C |
| For fain would I know | D |
| Where were these kisses three decades ago | D |
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