Harry (engaged To Be Married) To Charley (who Is Not) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEAE FGHGIJKJ LMNMAOPO QRPRLPLP AAPASPAP LTUTCVAV| To all my fond rhapsodies Charley | A |
| You have wearily listened I fear | B |
| As yet not an answer you ve given | C |
| Save a shrug or an ill concealed sneer | B |
| Pray why when I talk of my marriage | D |
| Do you watch me with sorrowing eye | E |
| Tis you hapless bachelor Charley | A |
| That are to be pitied not I | E |
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| You mockingly ask me to tell you | F |
| Since to bondage I soon must be sold | G |
| Have I wisely chosen my fetters | H |
| Which at least should be forged of pure gold | G |
| Hem the sole wealth my love possesses | I |
| Are her tresses of bright golden hair | J |
| Pearly teeth lips of rosiest coral | K |
| Eyes I know not with what to compare | J |
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| Don t talk about all I surrender | L |
| My club champagne dinners cigars | M |
| My hand at cart my harmless | N |
| Flirtations with Opera stars | M |
| Think of the pleasant home Charley | A |
| Home I utter the word with just pride | O |
| Its music soft lights countless comforts | P |
| Over which she will smiling preside | O |
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| And picture in fancy the welcome | Q |
| That will greet my arrival each night | R |
| How she ll help me to take off my wrappings | P |
| With her dear little fingers so white | R |
| The sweet silvery voice that will utter | L |
| The airiest nothings with grace | P |
| The smiles that will dimple all over | L |
| That loving and lovely young face | P |
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| If sickness should ever o ertake me | A |
| O just think how cherished I ll be | A |
| What loving cares gentle caresses | P |
| Shall be showered on fortunate me | A |
| While you in some lone gloomy attic | S |
| To dull death posting off at quick pace | P |
| Will encounter no tokens of pity | A |
| Save the smirk on some pert waiter s face | P |
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| And who perhaps twelve hours after | L |
| Bringing up your weak tea and dry toast | T |
| Will look in find you gone and drawl forth | U |
| Number ten has just given up the ghost | T |
| Then Charley to good counsel listen | C |
| Brave not an old bachelor s fate | V |
| But doing as I ve done go marry | A |
| A loving and loveable mate | V |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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