A Noontide Lyric Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MNONPHQH RSASTUV IWXWYZA2Z| THE dinner bell the dinner bell | A |
| Is ringing loud and clear | B |
| Through hill and plain through street and lane | C |
| It echoes far and near | B |
| From curtained hall and whitewashed stall | D |
| Wherever men can hide | E |
| Like bursting waves from ocean caves | F |
| They float upon the tide | E |
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| I smell the smell of roasted meat | G |
| I hear the hissing fry | H |
| The beggars know where they can go | I |
| But where oh where shall I | H |
| At twelve o'clock men took my hand | J |
| At two they only stare | K |
| And eye me with a fearful look | L |
| As if I were a bear | K |
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| The poet lays his laurels down | M |
| And hastens to his greens | N |
| The happy tailor quits his goose | O |
| To riot on his beans | N |
| The weary cobbler snaps his thread | P |
| The printer leaves his pi | H |
| His very devil hath a home | Q |
| But what oh what have I | H |
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| Methinks I hear an angel voice | R |
| That softly seems to say | S |
| 'Pale stranger all may yet be well | A |
| Then wipe thy tears away | S |
| Erect thy head and cock thy hat | T |
| And follow me afar | U |
| And thou shalt have a jolly meal | V |
| And charge it at the bar ' | - |
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| I hear the voice I go I go | I |
| Prepare your meat and wine | W |
| They little heed their future need | X |
| Who pay not when they dine | W |
| Give me to day the rosy bowl | Y |
| Give me one golden dream | Z |
| To morrow kick away the stool | A2 |
| And dangle from the beam | Z |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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