Dark Glasses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDEFFE GGHIIJKKDLLD MMNOONIIPQQP| Sweet maiden why disguise | A |
| The beauty of your eyes | A |
| With glasses black | B |
| Although I'm well aware | C |
| That you are more than fair | C |
| Allure you lack | B |
| For as I stare at you | D |
| I ask if brown or blue | D |
| Your optics are | E |
| But though I cannot see | F |
| I'm sure that each must be | F |
| Bright as a star | E |
| - | |
| That may be green or grey | G |
| 'Tis very hard to say | G |
| Or violet | H |
| The lovelight in their glow | I |
| Alas I'll never know | I |
| To my regret | J |
| In some rhyme book I've read | K |
| A lady bard has said | K |
| And deemed it true | D |
| Men will not bite the necks | L |
| Of sweeties who wear specs | L |
| Young man would you | D |
| - | |
| But though they balk romance | M |
| Columbus took a chance | M |
| And so would I | N |
| Even with orbs unseen | O |
| I'd fain make you my queen | O |
| And you en sky | N |
| Alas I see you go | I |
| And I will never know | I |
| Your pupils tint | P |
| So o'er a lonely drink | Q |
| I force myself to think | Q |
| Damsel you squint | P |
Robert Service
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