Conversation Galante Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBB DEDCFE CCCGCG| I observe Our sentimental friend the moon | A |
| Or possibly fantastic I confess | B |
| It may be Prester John's balloon | A |
| Or an old battered lantern hung aloft | C |
| To light poor travellers to their distress | B |
| She then How you digress | B |
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| And I then Someone frames upon the keys | D |
| That exquisite nocturne with which we explain | E |
| The night and moonshine music which we seize | D |
| To body forth our own vacuity | C |
| She then Does this refer to me | F |
| Oh no it is I who am inane | E |
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| You madam are the eternal humorist | C |
| The eternal enemy of the absolute | C |
| Giving our vagrant moods the slightest twist | C |
| With your air indifferent and imperious | G |
| At a stroke our mad poetics to confute | C |
| And Are we then so serious | G |
T. S. Eliot
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