My Corn-cob Pipe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGDD| Men may sing of their Havanas elevating to the stars | A |
| The real or fancied virtues of their foreign made cigars | A |
| But I worship Nicotina at a different sort of shrine | B |
| And she sits enthroned in glory in this corn cob pipe of mine | B |
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| It 's as fragrant as the meadows when the clover is in bloom | C |
| It 's as dainty as the essence of the daintiest perfume | C |
| It 's as sweet as are the orchards when the fruit is hanging ripe | D |
| With the sun's warm kiss upon them is this corn cob pipe | D |
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| Thro' the smoke about it clinging I delight its form to trace | E |
| Like an oriental beauty with a veil upon her face | E |
| And my room is dim with vapour as a church when censers sway | F |
| As I clasp it to my bosom in a figurative way | F |
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| It consoles me in misfortune and it cheers me in distress | G |
| And it proves a warm partaker of my pleasures in success | G |
| So I hail it as a symbol friendship's true and worthy type | D |
| And I press my lips devoutly to my corn cob pipe | D |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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