A Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDEFEFGFGHIHIHF HJKGKGGLGLJHHHGGGGML MLKNKNFGCGCOCJPQPPKG KGPHJHKHJHGGGGKLKLHO HOMJMGPRPRCKCKSGPG

After W M PA
Dear KittyA
At length the term's endingB
I 'm in for my Schools in a weekC
And the time that at present I'm spendingB
On you should be spent upon GreekC
But I'm fairly well read in my PlatoD
I'm thoroughly red in the eyesE
And I've almost forgotten the way toF
Be healthy and wealthy and wiseE
So 'the best of all ways' why repeat youF
The verse at a mG
When I 'm stealing an hour to entreat youF
Dear Kitty to come to CommemG
Oh come You shall rustle in satinH
Through halls where Examiners trodI
Your laughter shall triumph o'er LatinH
In lecture room garden and quadI
They stand in the silent SheldonianH
Our orators waiting for youF
Their style guaranteed CiceronianH
Their subject 'the Ladies in Blue 'J
The Vice sits arrayed in his scarletK
He's pale but they say he dissemG
bles by calling his Beadle a 'varlet'K
Whenever he thinks of CommemG
There are dances flirtations at NunehamG
Flower shows the procession of EightsL
There's a list stretching usque ad LunamG
Of concerts and lunches and fetesL
There's the Newdigate all about 'Gordon 'J
So sweet and they say it will scanH
You shall flirt with a Proctor a WardenH
Shall run for your shawl and your fanH
They are sportive as gods broken loose fromG
Olympus and yet very emG
inent men There are plenty to choose fromG
You'll find if you come to CommemG
I know your excuses Red SorrelM
Has stumbled and broken her kneesL
Aunt Phoebe thinks waltzing immoralM
And 'Algy you are such a teaseL
It's nonsense of course but she is strict'K
And little Dick Hodge has the croupN
And there's no one to visit your 'district'K
Or make Mother Tettleby's soupN
Let them cease for a se'nnight to plague youF
Oh leave them to manage pro temG
With their croups and their soups and their agueC
Dear Kitty and come to CommemG
Don't tell me Papa has lumbagoC
That you haven't a frock fit to wearO
That the curate 'has notions and may goC
To lengths if there's nobody there 'J
That the Squire has 'said things' to the VicarP
And the Vicar 'had words' with the SquireQ
That the Organist's taken to liquorP
And leaves you to manage the choirP
For Papa must be cured and the curateK
Coerced and your gown is a gemG
And the moral is Don't be obdurateK
Dear Kitty but come to CommemG
'My gown Though no doubt sir you're cleverP
You 'd better leave fashions aloneH
Do you think that a frock lasts for ever 'J
Dear Kitty I'll grant you have grownH
But I thought of my 'scene' with McVittieK
That night when he trod on your trainH
At the Bachelor's Ball ''Twas a pity 'J
You said but I knew 'twas ChampagneH
And your gown was enough to compel meG
To fall down and worship its hemG
Are 'hems' wearing If not you shall tell meG
What is when you come to CommemG
Have you thought since that night of the GrottoK
Of the words whispered under the palmsL
While the minutes flew by and forgot toK
Remind us of Aunt and her qualmsL
Of the stains of the old JournalistenH
Of the rose that I begged from your hairO
When you turned and I saw something glistenH
Dear Kitty don't frown it was thereO
But that idiot Delane in the middleM
Bounced in with 'Our dance I ahem 'J
And the rose you may find in my LiddellM
And Scott when you come to CommemG
Then Kitty let 'yes' be the answerP
We'll dance at the 'Varsity BallR
And the morning shall find you a dancerP
In Christ Church or Trinity hallR
And perhaps when the elders are yawningC
And rafters grow pale overheadK
With the day there shall come with its dawningC
Some thought of that sentence unsaidK
Be it this be it that 'I forget ' orS
'Was joking' whatever the femG
inine fib you'll have made me your debtorP
And come you will come to CommemG

Sir Arthur Quiller-couch



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