No More Music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDEDD FGFGG HIHII JGJGG FKFKK| The Porch was blazoned with geranium bloom | A |
| Myrtle and jasmine meadows lit the lea | B |
| With rose and violet the vale's perfume | A |
| Languished to where the hyacinthine sea | B |
| Dreamed tenderly And I must go said he | B |
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| He spoke in that dim ghostly voice of his | C |
| I was a singer then the Was and GAS | D |
| I had to lean to him no word to miss | E |
| We bought this little caf eacute nigh to Grasse | D |
| With sun and flowers my last few days will pass | D |
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| And music too I have my mandolin | F |
| Say Maybe you can strum on your guitar | G |
| Come on we two will make melodious din | F |
| While Madame sings to us behind the bar | G |
| You'll see how sweet Italian folk songs are | G |
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| So he would play and I would thrum the while | H |
| I used to there every lovely day | I |
| His wife would listen with a sunny smile | H |
| And when I left Please come again she'd say | I |
| He seems quite sad when you have one away | I |
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| Alas I had to leave without good bye | J |
| And lived in sooty cities for ayear | G |
| Oh how my heart ached for that happy sky | J |
| Then then one day my caf eacute I drew near | G |
| God it was strange how I was gripped with fear | G |
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| So still it was I saw no mandolin | F |
| No gay guitar with ribbons blue and red | K |
| Then all in black stone faced the wife came in | F |
| I did not ask I looked she shook her head | K |
| La musique est fini was all she said | K |
Robert William Service
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