Mazie's Ghost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBBBB CCCCDDDC EEEBFFFB GCCBCCCB BBBHCCCH IIIJHHHJ HHHCHHHC KKKHLLLH HHHBCCCCB| In London City I evade | A |
| For charming Burlington Arcade | A |
| For thee in youth I met a maid | A |
| By name of Mazie | B |
| Who lost no time in telling me | B |
| The Ritz put up a topping tea | B |
| But having only shillings three | B |
| My smile was hazy | B |
| - | |
| Instead said I it might be sport | C |
| To take a bus to Hampton Court | C |
| Her manner I remarked was short | C |
| But she assented | C |
| We climbed on top and all the way | D |
| I held her hand I felt quite gay | D |
| Bu Mazie I regret to say | D |
| Seemed discontented | C |
| - | |
| In fact we almost had a tiff | E |
| It's true it rained and she was stiff | E |
| And all she did was sneeze and sniff | E |
| And shudder coldly | B |
| So I said Mazzie there's the maze | F |
| Let's frolic in its leafy ways | F |
| And buying tickets where one pays | F |
| I entered boldly | B |
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| The as the game is we were lots | G |
| We dashed and darted crissed and crossed | C |
| But Mazie she got vexed and sauced | C |
| Me rather smartly | B |
| There wasn't but us two about | C |
| We hollered no one heard our shout | C |
| The rain poured down Oh let's get out | C |
| Cried Mazie tartly | B |
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| Keep cool says I You fool says she | B |
| I'm sopping wet I want my tea | B |
| Please take me home she wailed to me | B |
| In accents bitter | H |
| Again we tried this way and that | C |
| Yet came to where we started at | C |
| And Mazie acted like a cat | C |
| A champion spitter | H |
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| She stomped and romped till all was blue | I |
| Then sought herself to find the clue | I |
| And when I saw her next 'twas through | I |
| A leafy screening | J |
| Come on she cooed and join me here | H |
| You'll take me to the Savoy dear | H |
| And Heidsieck shall our spirits cheer | H |
| I got her meaning | J |
| - | |
| And yet I sought her everywhere | H |
| I hurried here I scurried there | H |
| I took each likely lane I swar | H |
| As I surmised it | C |
| The suddenly I saw once more | H |
| Confronting me the exit door | H |
| And I was dashing through before | H |
| I realized it | C |
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| And there I spied a passing bus | K |
| Thinks I It's mean to leave her thus | K |
| But after all her fret and fuss | K |
| I can't abide her | H |
| So I sped back to London town | L |
| And grubbed alone for half a crown | L |
| On steak and kidney pie washed down | L |
| With sparkling cider | H |
| - | |
| But since I left that damsel fair | H |
| The thought she may have perished there | H |
| Of cold starvation and dispair | H |
| Nigh drives me crazy | B |
| So stranger if you should invade | C |
| The charming Burlington Arcade | C |
| Tell me if you behold a shade | C |
| Ghost of a most unhappy maid | C |
| By name of Mazie | B |
Robert Service
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