Noctambule Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACDDD EAEAFDFD GHGHIDID IAIADDDD DDDD JIDI DDDDKHLL DADAMAMA DDDDJAJA IAIAAAAA EIEIJAJA| Zut it's two o'clock | A |
| See the lights are jumping | B |
| Finish up your bock | A |
| Time we all were humping | A |
| Waiters stack the chairs | C |
| Pile them on the tables | D |
| Let us to our lairs | D |
| Underneath the gables | D |
| - | |
| Up the old Boul' Mich' | E |
| Climb with steps erratic | A |
| Steady how I wish | E |
| I was in my attic | A |
| Full am I with cheer | F |
| In my heart the joy stirs | D |
| Couldn't be the beer | F |
| Must have been the oysters | D |
| - | |
| In obscene array | G |
| Garbage cans spill over | H |
| How I wish that they | G |
| Smelled as sweet as clover | H |
| Charing women wait | I |
| Cafes drop their shutters | D |
| Rats perambulate | I |
| Up and down the gutters | D |
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| Down the darkened street | I |
| Market carts are creeping | A |
| Horse with wary feet | I |
| Red faced driver sleeping | A |
| Loads of vivid greens | D |
| Carrots leeks potatoes | D |
| Cabbages and beans | D |
| Turnips and tomatoes | D |
| - | |
| Pair of dapper chaps | D |
| Cigarettes and sashes | D |
| Stare at me perhaps | D |
| Desperate Apach s | D |
| - | |
| Needn't bother me | J |
| Jolly well you know it | I |
| Parceque je suis | D |
| Quartier Latin poet | I |
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| Give you villanelles | D |
| Madrigals and lyrics | D |
| Ballades and rondels | D |
| Odes and panegyrics | D |
| Poet pinched and poor | K |
| Pricked by cold and hunger | H |
| Trouble's troubadour | L |
| Misery's balladmonger | L |
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| Think how queer it is | D |
| Every move I'm making | A |
| Cosmic gravity's | D |
| Center I am shaking | A |
| Oh how droll to feel | M |
| As I now am feeling | A |
| Even as I reel | M |
| All the world is reeling | A |
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| Reeling too the stars | D |
| Neptune and Uranus | D |
| Jupiter and Mars | D |
| Mercury and Venus | D |
| Suns and moons with me | J |
| As I'm homeward straying | A |
| All in sympathy | J |
| Swaying swaying swaying | A |
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| Lord I've got a head | I |
| Well it's not surprising | A |
| I must gain my bed | I |
| Ere the sun be rising | A |
| When the merry lark | A |
| In the sky is soaring | A |
| I'll refuse to hark | A |
| I'll be snoring snoring | A |
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| Strike a sulphur match | E |
| Ha at last my garret | I |
| Fumble at the latch | E |
| Close the door and bar it | I |
| Bed you graciously | J |
| Wait despite my scorning | A |
| So bibaciously | J |
| Mad old world good morning | A |
Robert William Service
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