At The Papyrus Club Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBDEAEA FAFAGHGHIJIJ KAKAAAA AJ AJAAAA| A LOVELY show for eyes to see | A |
| I looked upon this morning | B |
| A bright hued feathered company | A |
| Of nature's own adorning | B |
| But ah those minstrels would not sing | B |
| A listening ear while I lent | C |
| The lark sat still and preened his wing | B |
| The nightingale was silent | D |
| I longed for what they gave me not | E |
| Their warblings sweet and fluty | A |
| But grateful still for all I got | E |
| I thanked them for their beauty | A |
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| A fairer vision meets my view | F |
| Of Claras Margarets Marys | A |
| In silken robes of varied hue | F |
| Like bluebirds and canaries | A |
| The roses blush the jewels gleam | G |
| The silks and satins glisten | H |
| The black eyes flash the blue eyes beam | G |
| We look and then we listen | H |
| Behold the flock we cage to night | I |
| Was ever such a capture | J |
| To see them is a pure delight | I |
| To hear them ah what rapture | J |
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| Methinks I hear Delilah's laugh | K |
| At Samson bound in fetters | A |
| 'We captured ' shrieks each lovelier half | K |
| 'Men think themselves our betters | A |
| We push the bolt we turn the key | A |
| On warriors poets sages | A |
| Too happy all of them to be | A |
| Locked in our golden cages ' | - |
| Beware the boy with bandaged eyes | A |
| Has flung away his blinder | J |
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| He 's lost his mother so he cries | A |
| And here he knows he'll find her | J |
| The rogue 't is but a new device | A |
| Look out for flying arrows | A |
| Whene'er the birds of Paradise | A |
| Are perched amid the sparrows | A |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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