The Mayfair Love-song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABAC DEDEDEDE FGFGDHDH ICICJEDE KLKLMEME NENEOEOE PQRQSESE TUTVWEWE XEXEY YE| Winter and summer night and morn | A |
| I languish at this table dark | B |
| My office window has a corn | A |
| er looks into St James's Park | B |
| I hear the foot guards' bugle horn | A |
| Their tramp upon parade I mark | B |
| I am a gentleman forlorn | A |
| I am a Foreign Office Clerk | C |
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| My toils my pleasures every one | D |
| I find are stale and dull and slow | E |
| And yesterday when work was done | D |
| I felt myself so sad and low | E |
| I could have seized a sentry's gun | D |
| My wearied brains out out to blow | E |
| What is it makes my blood to run | D |
| What makes my heart to beat and glow | E |
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| My notes of hand are burnt perhaps | F |
| Some one has paid my tailor's bill | G |
| No every morn the tailor raps | F |
| My I O U's are extant still | G |
| I still am prey of debt and dun | D |
| My elder brother's stout and well | H |
| What is it makes my blood to run | D |
| What makes my heart to glow and swell | H |
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| I know my chief's distrust and hate | I |
| He says I'm lazy and I shirk | C |
| Ah had I genius like the late | I |
| Right Honorable Edmund Burke | C |
| My chance of all promotion's gone | J |
| I know it is he hates me so | E |
| What is it makes my blood to run | D |
| And all my heart to swell and glow | E |
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| Why why is all so bright and gay | K |
| There is no change there is no cause | L |
| My office time I found to day | K |
| Disgusting as it ever was | L |
| At three I went and tried the Clubs | M |
| And yawned and saunter'd to and fro | E |
| And now my heart jumps up and throbs | M |
| And all my soul is in a glow | E |
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| At half past four I had the cab | N |
| I drove as hard as I could go | E |
| The London sky was dirty drab | N |
| And dirty brown the London snow | E |
| And as I rattled in a cant | O |
| er down by dear old Bolton Row | E |
| A something made my heart to pant | O |
| And caused my cheek to flush and glow | E |
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| What could it be that made me find | P |
| Old Jawkins pleasant at the Club | Q |
| Why was it that I laughed and grinned | R |
| At whist although I lost the rub | Q |
| What was it made me drink like mad | S |
| Thirteen small glasses of Curaco | E |
| That made my inmost heart so glad | S |
| And every fibre thrill and glow | E |
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| She's home again she's home she's home | T |
| Away all cares and griefs and pain | U |
| I knew she would she's back from Rome | T |
| She's home again she's home again | V |
| 'The family's gone abroad ' they said | W |
| September last they told me so | E |
| Since then my lonely heart is dead | W |
| My blood I think's forgot to flow | E |
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| She's home again away all care | X |
| O fairest form the world can show | E |
| O beaming eyes O golden hair | X |
| O tender voice that breathes so low | E |
| O gentlest softest purest heart | Y |
| O joy O hope 'My tiger ho ' | - |
| Fitz Clarence said we saw him start | Y |
| He galloped down to Bolton Row | E |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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