Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFGGHHIIJJJKAA LLHHHHMM| Little maiden just beginning | A |
| To be comely arch and winning | A |
| In whose form I catch the traces | B |
| Of your mother's gifts and graces | C |
| And around whose head the glory | D |
| Of your father's growing story | D |
| O'er whose cradle fortune guided | E |
| Mars and Venus both presided | F |
| May your fuller years inherit | G |
| Female charm and manly merit | G |
| So that all may know who girt you | H |
| With vivacity and virtue | H |
| Whence you had the luck to borrow | I |
| Pensive mien without its sorrow | I |
| Dignity devoid of coldness | J |
| Sprightliness without its boldness | J |
| Raillery untipped by malice | J |
| Playful wit and kindly sallies | K |
| Eloquence averse from railing | A |
| Each good point without its failing | A |
| And when little bud you flower | L |
| Into maidenhood and power | L |
| Fate no fainter heart allot you | H |
| Than the brave one that begot you | H |
| So that you a race continue | H |
| Worthy of the blood within you | H |
| Handing down the gifts you bring them | M |
| With a better bard to sing them | M |
Alfred Austin
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