Philadelphia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBBCB DAEA ABFBGHIH JAKA ALBLMNBN OACA APBPQRAASATABA| If you're off to Philadelphia in the morning | A |
| You mustn't take my stories for a guide | B |
| There's little left indeed of the city you will read of | C |
| And all the folk I write about have died | B |
| Now few will understand if you mention Talleyrand | B |
| Or remember what his cunning and his skill did | B |
| And the cabmen at the wharf do not know Count Zinzendorf | C |
| Nor the Church in Philadelphia he builded | B |
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| It is gone gone gone with lost Atlantis | D |
| Never say I didn't give you warning | A |
| In Seventeen Ninety three 'twas there for all to see | E |
| But it's not in Philadelphia this morning | A |
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| If you're off to Philadelphia in the morning | A |
| You mustn't go by anything I've said | B |
| Bob Bicknell's Southern Stages have been laid aside for ages | F |
| But the Limited will take you there instead | B |
| Toby Hirte can't be seen at One Hundred and Eighteen | G |
| North Second Street no matter when you call | H |
| And I fear you'll search in vain for the wash house down the lane | I |
| Where Pharaoh played the fiddle at the ball | H |
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| It is gone gone gone with Thebes the Golden | J |
| Never say I didn't give you warning | A |
| In Seventeen Ninety four 'twas a famous dancing floor | K |
| But it's not in Philadelphia this morning | A |
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| If you're off to Philadelphia in the morning | A |
| You must telegraph for rooms at some Hotel | L |
| You needn't try your luck at Epply's or quot The Buck quot | B |
| Though the Father of his Country liked them well | L |
| It is not the slightest use to inquire for Adam Goos | M |
| Or to ask where Pastor Meder has removed so | N |
| You must treat as out of date the story I relate | B |
| Of the Church in Philadelphia he loved so | N |
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| He is gone gone gone with Martin Luther | O |
| Never say I didn't give you warning | A |
| In Seventeen Ninety five he was rest his soul alive | C |
| But he's not in Philadelphia this morning | A |
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| If you're off to Philadelphia this morning | A |
| And wish to prove the truth of what I say | P |
| I pledge my word you'll find the pleasant land behind | B |
| Unaltered since Red Jacket rode that way | P |
| Still the pine woods scent the noon still the catbird sings his | Q |
| tune | R |
| Still autumn sets the maple forest blazing | A |
| Still the grape vine through the dusk flings her soul compelling | A |
| musk | S |
| Still the fire flies in the corn make night amazing | A |
| They are there there there with Earth immortal | T |
| Citizens I give you friendly warning | A |
| The thins that truly last when men and times have passed | B |
| They are all in Pennsylvania this morning | A |
Rudyard Kipling
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