Café Comedy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDADA EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL A BLBLDGDG MNMNOPOP QRQRSTST UGVGWXYXX| She | A |
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| I'm waiting for the man I hope to wed | B |
| I've never seen him that's the funny part | C |
| I promised I would wear a rose of red | B |
| Pinned on my coat above my fluttered heart | C |
| So that he'd know me a precaution wise | D |
| Because I wrote him I was twenty three | A |
| And Oh such heaps and heaps of silly lies | D |
| So when we meet what will he think of me | A |
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| It's funny but it has its sorry side | E |
| I put an advert in the evening Press | F |
| A lonely maiden fain would be a bride | E |
| Oh it was shameless of me I confess | F |
| But I am thirty nine and in despair | G |
| Wanting a home and children ere too late | H |
| And I forget I'm no more young and fair | G |
| I'll hide my rose and run No no I'll wait | H |
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| An hour has passed and I am waiting still | I |
| I ought to feel relieved but I'm so sad | J |
| I would have liked to see him just to thrill | I |
| And sigh and say There goes my lovely lad | J |
| My one romance Ah Life's malign mishap | K |
| Garcon a caf egrave creme I'll stay till nine | L |
| The caf egrave 's empty just an oldish chap | K |
| Who's sitting at the table next to mine | L |
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| He | A |
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| I'm waiting for the girl I mean to wed | B |
| She was to come at eight and now it's nine | L |
| She'd pin upon her coat a rose of red | B |
| And I would wear a marguerite in mine | L |
| No sign of her I see It's true my eyes | D |
| Need stronger glasses than the ones I wear | G |
| But Oh I feel my heart would recognize | D |
| Her face without the rose she is so fair | G |
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| Ah what deceivers are we aging men | M |
| What vanity keeps youthful hope aglow | N |
| Poor girl I sent a photo taken when | M |
| I was a student twenty years ago | N |
| Hers is so Springlike Oh so blossom sweet | O |
| How she will shudder when she sees me now | P |
| I think I'd better hide that marguerite | O |
| How can I age and ugliness avow | P |
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| She does not come It's after nine o'clock | Q |
| What fools we fogeys are I'll try to laugh | R |
| Garcon you might bring me another bock | Q |
| Falling in love just from a photograph | R |
| Well that's the end I'll go home and forget | S |
| Then realizing I am over ripe | T |
| I'll throw away this silly cigarette | S |
| And philosophically light my pipe | T |
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| The waiter brought the coffee and the beer | U |
| And there they sat so woe begone a pair | G |
| And seemed to think Why do we linger here | V |
| When suddenly they turned to start and stare | G |
| She spied a marguerite he glimpsed a rose | W |
| Their eyes were joined and in a flash they knew | X |
| The sleepy waiter saw when time to close | Y |
| The sweet romance of those deceiving two | X |
| Whose lips were joined their hearts their future too | X |
Robert Service
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