Picpus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHEGGEHGGIAE HJKHGLEHKELMKHLNHHH HHO| The day I went to LaFayette's grave the | A |
| concierge became | B |
| our tour guide amid an old | C |
| ruin of tombstones including bedraggled | D |
| de Tocqueville's crypt and he heir | E |
| apparant of America too | F |
| - | |
| There too the odd City of St Louis tribute | G |
| Fayettevilles | H |
| after yet another Saint Louis despoiler | E |
| of the Jews both sitting squat and apparant | G |
| in summer dust so shingle flat | G |
| mindful of Place De La Nation more | E |
| blood letting blocks away so the aristocracy | H |
| might be healed | G |
| A chapel nun then reached in loud | G |
| silence for our Lord her black | I |
| habit upraised hands forming a | A |
| brilliant crucifix against sky and altar | E |
| - | |
| Some francs exchanged hands | H |
| Monsieur le keeper after all | J |
| obliged us by opening | K |
| a private cemetery apr s heures | H |
| the graves looked so wretched | G |
| death stylized in military formation | L |
| row on row | E |
| every private carrying a field marshall's | H |
| baton only this time of mortality's making | K |
| crestfallen no Agile Lapin Moulin Rouge here | E |
| in the joyless little garden | L |
| not a bird sang | M |
| our old Frenchman narrating marching | K |
| on in The Old Guard Grand Arm e | H |
| fashion | L |
| a little Napoleonic | N |
| his cemetery his brandy | H |
| like his suspender buttons | H |
| lost to recent antiquity | H |
| - | |
| Place des Vosges Place des Vendomes | H |
| A dish of plaice at the palais | H |
| and a royal hippodrome | O |
Paul Cameron Brown
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