Don Juan-s Good-night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAAB CCAAA DDEFGH IIAJKA LLAM A NNOPQO DAAAAA| Teach me gentle Leporello | A |
| Since you are so wise a fellow | A |
| How your master I may win | B |
| Leporello answers gaily | A |
| Slip into his bed and way lay | A |
| Him anon he shall come in | B |
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| Soon as he shall find you laid there | C |
| Fresh and young so sweet a maid there | C |
| He shall smile and joyfully | A |
| I am hungry Leporello | A |
| Bring us wine good wine and mellow | A |
| Here is one would sup with me '' | - |
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| Wine then will I bring not water | D |
| A feast fit for a king's daughter | D |
| Lay it out in the alcove | E |
| While my Lord with pleasant fancies | F |
| Makes his court to you romances | G |
| Of your beauty and his love | H |
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| Passion soon shall rise full blossom | I |
| He shall weep upon your bosom | I |
| Make you all his soul's display | A |
| He in honour as a true man | J |
| Shall declare you the sole woman | K |
| He has loved until to day | A |
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| At the last he shall possess you | L |
| And all night Then with God bless you'' | L |
| Turn to sleep nor shall you know | A |
| Curtained in your silks and satins | M |
| How at dawn he was off to matins '' | - |
| His politeness called it so | A |
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| But remember from next morning | N |
| You must quite forget the adorning | N |
| Of to night or earn his curse | O |
| Gold is yours if you but ask it | P |
| Spain and Flanders in a basket | Q |
| I am keeper of his purse | O |
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| To console you be a forture | D |
| Will not grudge But to importune | A |
| His more tenderness Nay Nay | A |
| A return to even your beauty | A |
| Were too costly a Duke's duty | A |
| One his whole wealth could not pay | A |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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