At A Reading Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHEEIIJJ KKLLMMNNOOPPEEFFQQRR SS| The spare professor grave and bald | A |
| Began his paper It was called | A |
| I think A Brief Historic Glance | B |
| At Russia Germany and France | B |
| A glance but to my best belief | C |
| 'T was almost anything but brief | C |
| A wide survey in which the earth | D |
| Was seen before mankind had birth | D |
| Strange monsters basked them in the sun | E |
| Behemoth armored glyptodon | E |
| And in the dawn's unpractised ray | F |
| The transient dodo winged its way | F |
| Then by degrees through slit and slough | G |
| We reached Berlin I don't know how | H |
| The good Professor's monotone | E |
| Had turned me into senseless stone | E |
| Instanter but that near me sat | I |
| Hypatia in her new spring hat | I |
| Blue eyed intent with lips whose bloom | J |
| Lighted the heavy curtained room | J |
| Hypatia ah what lovely things | K |
| Are fashioned out of eighteen springs | K |
| At first in sums of this amount | L |
| The eighteen winters do not count | L |
| Just as my eyes were growing dim | M |
| With heaviness I saw that slim | M |
| Erect elastic figure there | N |
| Like a pond lily taking air | N |
| She looked so fresh so wise so neat | O |
| So altogether crisp and sweet | O |
| I quite forgot what Bismarck said | P |
| And why the Emperor shook his head | P |
| And how it was Von Moltke's frown | E |
| Cost France another frontier town | E |
| The only facts I took away | F |
| From the Professor's theme that day | F |
| Were these a forehead broad and low | Q |
| Such as antique sculptures show | Q |
| A chin to Greek perfection true | R |
| Eyes of Astarte's tender blue | R |
| A high complection without fleck | S |
| Or flaw and curls about her neck | S |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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