Categorical Courtship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBB CDCDCC CBCBEE FEFEEE CBCBGG CCCCGG| I sat one night beside a blue eyed girl | A |
| The fire was out and so too was her mother | B |
| A feeble flame around the lamp did curl | A |
| Making faint shadows blending in each other | B |
| 'Twas nearly twelve o'clock too in November | B |
| She had a shawl on also I remember | B |
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| Well I had been to see her every night | C |
| For thirteen days and had a sneaking notion | D |
| To pop the question thinking all was right | C |
| And once or twice had make an awkward motion | D |
| To take her hand and stammer'd cough'd and stutter'd | C |
| But somehow nothing to the point had utter'd | C |
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| I thought this chance too good now to be lost | C |
| I hitched my chair up pretty close beside her | B |
| Drew a long breath and then my legs I cross'd | C |
| Bent over sighed and for five minutes eyed her | B |
| She looked as if she knew what next was coming | E |
| And with her feet upon the floor was drumming | E |
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| I didn't know how to begin or where | F |
| I couldn't speak the words were always choking | E |
| I scarce could move I seem'd tied to the chair | F |
| I hardly breathed 'twas awfully provoking | E |
| The perspiration from each pore came oozing | E |
| My heart and brain and limbs their power seem'd losing | E |
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| At length I saw a brindle tabby cat | C |
| Walk purring up inviting me to pat her | B |
| An idea came electric like at that | C |
| My doubts like summer clouds began to scatter | B |
| I seized on tabby though a scratch she gave me | G |
| And said Come Puss ask Mary if she'll have me | G |
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| 'Twas done at once the murder now was out | C |
| The thing was all explain'd in half a minute | C |
| She blush'd and turning pussy cat about | C |
| Said Pussy tell him 'yes' her foot was in it | C |
| The cat had thus saved me my category | G |
| And here's the catastrophe of my story | G |
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