The Menu Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFGGHHIIJJKKLL MMHH| I beg you come to night and dine | A |
| A welcome waits you and sound wine | A |
| The Roederer chilly to a charm | B |
| As Juno's breath the claret warm | C |
| The sherry of an ancient brand | D |
| No Persian pomp you understand | D |
| A soup a fish two meats and then | E |
| A salad fit for aldermen | F |
| When alderman alas the days | G |
| Were really worth their mayonnaise | G |
| A dish of grapes whose clusters won | H |
| Their bronze in Carolinian sun | H |
| Next cheese for you the Neufch tel | I |
| A bit of Cheshire likes me well | I |
| Caf au lait or coffee black | J |
| With Kirsch or K mmel or Cognac | J |
| The German band in Irving Place | K |
| By this time purple in the face | K |
| Cigars and pipes These being through | L |
| Friends shall drop in a very few | L |
| Shakespeare and Milton and no more | M |
| When these are guests I bolt the door | M |
| With Not at Home to any one | H |
| Excepting Alfred Tennyson | H |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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