Babette Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED EFEFADAD GHIHJDKD LALALDLD MBMBEDCD MNMNEDEDD| My Lady is dancing so lightly | A |
| The belle of the Embassy Ball | B |
| I lied as I kissed her politely | A |
| And hurried away from it all | B |
| I'm taxiing up to Montmartre | C |
| With never a pang of regret | D |
| To toy for awhile with the garter | E |
| Of her whom I know as Babette | D |
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| My Lady's an exquisite creature | E |
| As rare as a queen on a throne | F |
| She's faultless in form and in feature | E |
| But oh she is cold as a stone | F |
| And so from her presence I hurry | A |
| Her iciness quick to forget | D |
| In sensuous joy as I bury | A |
| My face in the breast of Babette | D |
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| She's only a flower of the pavement | G |
| With Paris and Spring in her eyes | H |
| Yet I who foresaw what the grave meant | I |
| Of passion behold with surprise | H |
| When she greets me as gay as a linnet | J |
| Afar from life's fever and fret | D |
| I'm twenty years younger the minute | K |
| I enter the room of Babette | D |
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| The poor little supper she offers | L |
| Is more than a banquet to me | A |
| A different bif tik she proffers | L |
| Pommes frit and a morsel of Brie | A |
| We finish with coffee and kisses | L |
| Then sit on the sofa and pet | D |
| At the Embassy Mumm never misses | L |
| But pinard's my drink with Babette | D |
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| Somehow and somewhere to my thinking | M |
| There's a bit of apache in us all | B |
| In bistros I'd rather be drinking | M |
| Than dance at the Embassy Ball | B |
| How often I feel I would barter | E |
| My place in the social set | D |
| To roam in a moonlit Montmartre | C |
| Alone with my little Babette | D |
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| I'm no longer young and I'm greying | M |
| I'm tailored top hatted kid gloved | N |
| And though in dark ways i be straying | M |
| It's heaven to love and beloved | N |
| The passion of youth to re capture | E |
| My Lady's perfection and yet | D |
| When I kiss her I think of the rapture | E |
| I find in the charms of Babette | D |
| Entwined in the arms of Babettte | D |
Robert Service
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