Mrs. Katherine-s Lantern Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC B DDE FFFBGGB FFBHHB IJIKKLLL FMMFBKKKNNHHH| 'Coming from a gloomy court | A |
| Place of Israelite resort | A |
| This old lamp I've brought with me | B |
| Madam on its panes you'll see | B |
| The initials K and E ' | C |
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| 'An old lantern brought to me | B |
| Ugly dingy battered black ' | - |
| Here a lady I suppose | D |
| Turning up a pretty nose | D |
| 'Pray sir take the old thing back | E |
| I've no taste for bricabrac ' | - |
| - | |
| 'Please to mark the letters twain' | F |
| I'm supposed to speak again | F |
| 'Graven on the lantern pane | F |
| Can you tell me who was she | B |
| Mistress of the flowery wreath | G |
| And the anagram beneath | G |
| The mysterious K E | B |
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| 'Full a hundred years are gone | F |
| Since the little beacon shone | F |
| From a Venice balcony | B |
| There on summer nights it hung | H |
| And her Lovers came and sung | H |
| To their beautiful K E | B |
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| 'Hush in the canal below | I |
| Don't you hear the plash of oars | J |
| Underneath the lantern's glow | I |
| And a thrilling voice begins | K |
| To the sound of mandolins | K |
| Begins singing of amore | L |
| And delire and dolore | L |
| O the ravishing tenore | L |
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| 'Lady do you know the tune | F |
| Ah we all of us have hummed it | M |
| I've an old guitar has thrummed it | M |
| Under many a changing moon | F |
| Shall I try it Do Re MI | B |
| What is this Ma foi the fact is | K |
| That my hand is out of practice | K |
| And my poor old fiddle cracked is | K |
| And a man I let the truth out | N |
| Who's had almost every tooth out | N |
| Cannot sing as once he sung | H |
| When he was young as you are young | H |
| When he was young and lutes were strung | H |
| And love lamps in the casement hung ' | - |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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