On The Boulevard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GBGBHBHB IJIJKLKL MNMMBBBB OMOOKBKB PQPQRBEB STSTULVL WMWMXYXY OHOHNZNZ A2MA2MMBMB MNMNQBQB B2C2B2C2QEQEOh it's pleasant sitting here | A |
Seeing all the people pass | B |
You beside your bock of beer | C |
I behind my demi tasse | B |
Chatting of no matter what | D |
You the Mummer I the Bard | E |
Oh it's jolly is it not | F |
Sitting on the Boulevard | E |
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More amusing than a book | G |
If a chap has eyes to see | B |
For no matter where I look | G |
Stories stories jump at me | B |
Moving tales my pen might write | H |
Poems plain on every face | B |
Monologues you could recite | H |
With inimitable grace | B |
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Ah Imagination's power | I |
See yon demi mondaine there | J |
Idly toying with a flower | I |
Smiling with a pensive air | J |
Well her smile is but a mask | K |
For I saw within her muff | L |
Such a wicked little flask | K |
Vitriol ugh the beastly stuff | L |
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Now look back beside the bar | M |
See yon curled and scented beau | N |
Puffing at a fine cigar | M |
Sale esp ce de maquereau | M |
Well of course it's all surmise | B |
It's for him she holds her place | B |
When he passes she will rise | B |
Dash the vitriol in his face | B |
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Quick they'll carry him away | O |
Pack him in a Red Cross car | M |
Her they'll hurry so they say | O |
To the cells of St Lazare | O |
What will happen then you ask | K |
What will all the sequel be | B |
Ah Imagination's task | K |
Isn't easy let me see | B |
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She will go to jail no doubt | P |
For a year or maybe two | Q |
Then as soon as she gets out | P |
Start her bawdy life anew | Q |
He will lie within a ward | R |
Harmless as a man can be | B |
With his face grotesquely scarred | E |
And his eyes that cannot see | B |
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Then amid the city's din | S |
He will stand against a wall | T |
With around his neck a tin | S |
Into which the pennies fall | T |
She will pass I see it plain | U |
Like a cinematograph | L |
She will halt and turn again | V |
Look and look and maybe laugh | L |
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Well I'm not so sure of that | W |
Whether she will laugh or cry | M |
He will hold a battered hat | W |
To the lady passing by | M |
He will smile a cringing smile | X |
And into his grimy hold | Y |
With a laugh or sob the while | X |
She will drop a piece of gold | Y |
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Bless you lady he will say | O |
And get grandly drunk that night | H |
She will come and come each day | O |
Fascinated by the sight | H |
Then somehow he'll get to know | N |
Maybe by some kindly friend | Z |
Who she is and so and so | N |
Bring my story to an end | Z |
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How his heart will burst with hate | A2 |
He will curse and he will cry | M |
He will wait and wait and wait | A2 |
Till again she passes by | M |
Then like tiger from its lair | M |
He will leap from out his place | B |
Down her clutch her by the hair | M |
Smear the vitriol on her face | B |
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Ah Imagination rare | M |
See he takes his hat to go | N |
Now he's level with her chair | M |
Now she rises up to throw | N |
God and she has done it too | Q |
Oh those screams those hideous screams | B |
I imagined and it's true | Q |
How his face will haunt my dreams | B |
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What a sight It makes me sick | B2 |
Seems I am to blame somehow | C2 |
Garcon fetch a brandy quick | B2 |
There I'm feeling better now | C2 |
Let's collaborate we two | Q |
You the Mummer I the Bard | E |
Oh what ripping stuff we'll do | Q |
Sitting on the Boulevard | E |
Robert Service
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