Reminiscences Of A Dancing Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDEFGE A HEHEEEIDDE A EJEJHKLHHL| I | A |
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| Who now remembers Almack's balls | B |
| Willis's sometime named | C |
| In those two smooth floored upper halls | B |
| For faded ones so famed | C |
| Where as we trod to trilling sound | D |
| The fancied phantoms stood around | D |
| Or joined us in the maze | E |
| Of the powdered Dears from Georgian years | F |
| Whose dust lay in sightless sealed up biers | G |
| The fairest of former days | E |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Who now remembers gay Cremorne | H |
| And all its jaunty jills | E |
| And those wild whirling figures born | H |
| Of Jullien's grand quadrilles | E |
| With hats on head and morning coats | E |
| There footed to his prancing notes | E |
| Our partner girls and we | I |
| And the gas jets winked and the lustres clinked | D |
| And the platform throbbed as with arms enlinked | D |
| We moved to the minstrelsy | E |
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| III | A |
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| Who now recalls those crowded rooms | E |
| Of old yclept The Argyle | J |
| Where to the deep Drum polka's booms | E |
| We hopped in standard style | J |
| Whither have danced those damsels now | H |
| Is Death the partner who doth moue | K |
| Their wormy chaps and bare | L |
| Do their spectres spin like sparks within | H |
| The smoky halls of the Prince of Sin | H |
| To a thunderous Jullien air | L |
Thomas Hardy
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