Dark Glasses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDEFFE GGHIIJKKDLLD MMNOONIIPQQPSweet 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 |
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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 |
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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 William Service
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