Her Tour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IHIHJJJJ KLKMNHNH BOBOEHEH JJJJJBJB POPOOHOH QBQBOROR JSJSASAS B JJPPTTOOSSSS UUSSDDPPQQSSPPVV PPSSWW SS

Yes we've been travelling my dearA
Three months or such a matterB
And it's a blessing to get clearA
Of all the clash and clatterB
Ah when I look the guide book throughC
And see each queer place in thereD
'Tis hard to make it seem quite trueC
That I myself have been thereD
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Our voyage Oh of course 'twas gayE
Delightful splendid gloriousF
We spurned the shore we sped awayE
We rode the waves victoriousF
The first mate's mustache was so grandG
The ocean sweet though stormyH
I was so sick I could not standG
But papa saw it for meH
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At Queenstown we saw land once moreI
Ground never looked so prettyH
We took a steam car near the shoreI
For some light sounding cityH
A very ordinary stoneJ
We had to kiss at BlarneyJ
The beggars wouldn't let us aloneJ
That half day at KillarneyJ
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The Giants' Causeway 'Tis arrangedK
With no regard to scienceL
It must somehow of late have changedK
At least we saw no giantsM
Some little funny scrubs of folksN
Sold pictures and were merryH
The men were full of yarns and jokesN
The women barefoot veryH
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Old Scotland Yes all in our powerB
We did there to be thoroughO
We stopped in Glasgow one whole hourB
Then straight to EdinboroughO
At Abbotsford we made a stayE
Of half an hour preciselyH
The ruins all along the wayE
Were ruined very nicelyH
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We did a mountain in the rainJ
And left the others undoneJ
Then took the Flying Scotchman trainJ
And came by night to LondonJ
Long tunnels somewhere on the lineJ
Made sound and darkness deeperB
No English scenery is not fineJ
Viewed from a Pullman sleeperB
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Oh Paris Paris Paris 'tisP
No wonder dear that you goO
So far into the ecstasiesP
About that Victor HugoO
He paints the city high and lowO
With faithful pen and readyH
I think my dear I ought to knowO
We drove there two hours steadyH
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Through Switzerland by train Yes IQ
Enjoyed it in a measureB
But still the mountains are too highQ
To see with any pleasureB
Their tops they made my neck quite stiffO
Just stretching up to view themR
And folks are very foolish ifO
They clamber clear up to themR
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Rome Venice Naples and the RhineJ
We did them do not doubt itS
This guide book here is very fineJ
'Twill tell you all about itS
We've saved up Asia till next yearA
If business gets unravelledS
What going Come again and dearA
I will not seem so travelledS
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WASHINGTON NovemberB
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We're travelling and we're here and what a townJ
I own it picks me up and sets me downJ
I thought I had some idea of the placeP
And what its corporation lines embraceP
I'd read the county papers every weekT
Which seldom failed From Washington to speakT
I'd travelled through these streets by photographO
And with Imagination for a staffO
Had wandered round in little trips disjointedS
Even where the artist's brass gun has not pointedS
And so I said Though I wouldn't like to miss itS
'Twill be a good deal like a second visitS
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But 'tisn't an easy perpetrated schemeU
To prophesy how anything will seemU
This city's new to me I do not doubt itS
As if I'd never heard a word about itS
There's something in these white clothed buildings' glareD
And something even in the very airD
And in the great variety of facesP
Bearing the ear marks of a thousand placesP
And in that monument that reaches highQ
The farthest stone has climbed into the skyQ
And in that dome whose kingly size and heightS
Contrive where'er you are to keep in sightS
From these and several hundred other thingsP
This nation's lead horse city at you flingsP
You feel as if you'd stepped through many a mileV
Into another planet for a whileV
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But men too weary to hold up their headsP
Are apt to bless the man who first made bedsP
Then having found one and reclined within itS
Forget about him in just half a minuteS
So I'll let Morpheus who is at me winkingW
Do the remainder of this evening's thinkingW
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Or woman let due praise to her be paidS
A bed is never made until 'tis madeS

William Mckendree Carleton



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