Mazie's Ghost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBBBB CCCCDDDC EEEBFFFB GCCBCCCB BBBHCCCH IIIJHHHJ HHHCHHHC KKKHLLLH HHHBCCCCBIn 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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