Pink Dominoes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHAH AIJI DKFK LAGA MLFL ANON PGAG FQGQ AQAA| quot They are fools who kiss and tell quot | A |
| Wisely has the poet sung | B |
| Man may hold all sorts of posts | C |
| If he'll only hold his tongue | B |
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| Jenny and Me were engaged you see | D |
| On the eve of the Fancy Ball | E |
| So a kiss or two was nothing to you | F |
| Or any one else at all | E |
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| Menny would go in a domino | G |
| Pretty and pink but warm | H |
| While I attended clad in a splendid | A |
| Austrian uniform | H |
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| Now we had arranged through notes exchanged | A |
| Early that afternoon | I |
| At Number Four to waltz no more | J |
| But to sit in the dusk and spoon | I |
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| I wish you to see that Jenny and Me | D |
| Had barely exchanged our troth | K |
| So a kiss or two was strictly due | F |
| By from and between us both | K |
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| When Three was over an eager lover | L |
| I fled to the gloom outside | A |
| And a Domino came out also | G |
| Whom I took for my future bride | A |
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| That is to say in a casual way | M |
| I slipped my arm around her | L |
| With a kiss or two which is nothing to you | F |
| And ready to kiss I found her | L |
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| She turned her head and the name she said | A |
| Was certainly not my own | N |
| But ere I could speak with a smothered shriek | O |
| She fled and left me alone | N |
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| Then Jenny came and I saw with shame | P |
| She'd doffed her domino | G |
| And I had embraced an alien waist | A |
| But I did not tell her so | G |
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| Next morn I knew that there were two | F |
| Dominoes pink and one | Q |
| Had cloaked the spouse of Sir Julian Vouse | G |
| Our big Political gun | Q |
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| Sir J was old and her hair was gold | A |
| And her eye was a blue cerulean | Q |
| And the name she said when she turned her head | A |
| Was not in the least like quot Julian quot | A |
Rudyard Kipling
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