Burbank With A Baedeker: Bleistein With A Cigar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDDE FGHG IGJG KKLM MJNO PQNQ RSNS TNUN VWXW| Tra la la la la la laire nil nisi divinum stabile | A |
| est caetera fumus the gondola stopped the old | B |
| palace was there how charming its grey and pink | C |
| goats and monkeys with such hair too so the | D |
| countess passed on until she came through the | D |
| little park where Niobe presented her with a | D |
| cabinet and so departed | E |
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| Burbank crossed a little bridge | F |
| Descending at a small hotel | G |
| Princess Volupine arrived | H |
| They were together and he fell | G |
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| Defunctive music under sea | I |
| Passed seaward with the passing bell | G |
| Slowly the God Hercules | J |
| Had left him that had loved him well | G |
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| The horses under the axletree | K |
| Beat up the dawn from Istria | K |
| With even feet Her shuttered barge | L |
| Burned on the water all the day | M |
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| But this or such was Bleistein's way | M |
| A saggy bending of the knees | J |
| And elbows with the palms turned out | N |
| Chicago Semite Viennese | O |
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| A lustreless protrusive eye | P |
| Stares from the protozoic slime | Q |
| At a perspective of Canaletto | N |
| The smoky candle end of time | Q |
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| Declines On the Rialto once | R |
| The rats are underneath the piles | S |
| The jew is underneath the lot | N |
| Money in furs The boatman smiles | S |
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| Princess Volupine extends | T |
| A meagre blue nailed phthisic hand | N |
| To climb the waterstair Lights lights | U |
| She entertains Sir Ferdinand | N |
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| Klein Who clipped the lion's wings | V |
| And flea'd his rump and pared his claws | W |
| Thought Burbank meditating on | X |
| Time's ruins and the seven laws | W |
T. S. Eliot
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