Envoy'to Charles Baxter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHEIEJEK FL MGNOPEE DDDQDERDD| Do you remember | A |
| That afternoon that Sunday afternoon | B |
| When as the kirks were ringing in | C |
| And the grey city teemed | D |
| With Sabbath feelings and aspects | E |
| Lewis our Lewis then | F |
| Now the whole world's and you | G |
| Young yet in shape most like an elder came | H |
| Laden with Balzacs | E |
| Big yellow books quite impudently French | I |
| The first of many times | E |
| To that transformed back kitchen where I lay | J |
| So long so many centuries | E |
| Or years is it ago | K |
| - | |
| Dear Charles since then | F |
| We have been friends Lewis and you and I | L |
| How good it sounds 'Lewis and you and I ' | - |
| Such friends I like to think | M |
| That in us three Lewis and me and you | G |
| Is something of that gallant dream | N |
| Which old Dumas the generous the humane | O |
| The seven and seventy times to be forgiven | P |
| Dreamed for a blessing to the race | E |
| The immortal Musketeers | E |
| - | |
| Our Athos rests the wise the kind | D |
| The liberal and august his fault atoned | D |
| Rests in the crowded yard | D |
| There at the west of Princes Street We three | Q |
| You I and Lewis still afoot | D |
| Are still together and our lives | E |
| In chime so long may keep | R |
| God bless the thought | D |
| Unjangled till the end | D |
William Ernest Henley
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