The Lady Poverty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABA CDCCDC EFGGFG| The Lady Poverty was fair | A |
| But she has lost her looks of late | B |
| With change of times and change of air | A |
| Ah slattern she neglects her hair | A |
| Her gown her shoes She keeps no state | B |
| As once when her pure feet were bare | A |
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| Or almost worse if worse can be | C |
| She scolds in parlours dusts and trims | D |
| Watches and counts Oh is this she | C |
| Whom Francis met whose step was free | C |
| Who with Obedience carolled hymns | D |
| In Umbria walked with Chastity | C |
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| Where is her ladyhood Not here | E |
| Not among modern kinds of men | F |
| But in the stony fields where clear | G |
| Through the thin trees the skies appear | G |
| In delicate spare soil and fen | F |
| And slender landscape and austere | G |
Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
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