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Forsaking All Others Part 1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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'NOT that you'll like him ' Nell said	A
'No mystery no romance	B
A fine stern eagle like head	A
But he simply reeks of finance	B
Started from nothing self made	C
And rather likes you to know it	D
And now collects porcelain and jade	C
Or some Seventeenth Century poet	E
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'Married in simpler days	F
A poor little wren of a being	G
Who exists to pray and praise	F
And spends her life agreeing	G
Thin and dowdy and pale	H
And getting paler and thinner	I
Well the point of this dreary tale	H
Is I've asked them both to dinner	I
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'I'd leave her out like a shot	J
For I'm not so keen about her	I
But my dear believe it or not	J
He won't dine out without her	I
She has that terrible hold	K
That aging wives exert to	L
Replace young charms grown old	K
Poor health and impeccable virtue	L
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'Lightly I asked them to dine	M
And now I perceive the dangers	N
My friends yours and mine	M
Are so terribly rude to strangers	N
But you dear girl I can trust	O
To come and be brilliant and tender	I
Vamp the man if you must	O
But give an impression of splendor '	-
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II	-
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LEE sat before her mirror rouged her lips	P
Set dripping diamond earrings in her ears	Q
Polished a little at her finger tips	P
Thought that she did not look her thirty years	Q
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Thought 'Poor dear Nellie's ill assorted feasts	R
I want to be as helpful as I can	S
Among that group of men and gods and beasts	R
Why does she think I shall not like this man	S
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She made him sound entrancing strong and crude	T
Successful dominant I who for so long	U
Have known a somewhat pitiful servitude	T
To weakness have no terror of the strong '	-
Her maid held up her cloak of furry white	V
And gave her money in a golden purse	W
She sighed 'Not even third rate bridge to night	V
Just third rate conversation which is worse '	-
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III	-
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'NELLIE I'm sorry I'm late	X
Edward I honestly am	Y
Just the malignance of fate	X
I always get caught in a jam	Y
Whenever I'm coming to you	L
'Mrs Wayne back of you Lee	Z
And Mr Wayne '	-
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'How do you do	L
Isn't that cocktail for me	Z
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IV	-
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MENU	L
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CAVIAR cocktails soup of black bean	A2
Shad Moet Chandon of	-
A saddle of mutton a stuffed aubergine	A2
With some creme de menthe jelly of beautiful green	A2
Avocados and lettuce and cold galantine	A2
And baba au rhum with a sauce grenadine	A2
Coffee and fruit and some excellent fine	A2
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V	-
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SOME women hard beautiful women know a way	B2
Of looking up at a man so gentle and gay	B2
A magical child like look that seems to say	B2
Let us be happy together for an hour a day	B2
A night or forever Let us yield to the charm	C2
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Lee looked at Wayne and put her hand on his arm	C2
Under the broadcloth and linen she felt his muscles like steel	D2
Feeling she said to herself as a man's arm ought to feel	D2
And she glanced at her own hand there so slim and cool	E2
With its single cabochon emerald like a deep green pool	E2
'Shall we go first ' she asked him 'or let them all go ahead '	-
And so they spoke of leading and being led	A
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And then she told him a story heard she didn't know when	A2
Of an arctic expedition from which two men	A2
Had got lost and while they were off and away	B2
They met a dog starving like them and astray	B2
A clever heroic creature who in the end	F2
Guided them back and they loved that dog like a friend	F2
Loved him and worried about him all the way back	G2
What would he do when he met the head of the pack	G2
The leader of dogs the old dog cruel and stern	A2
Who brooked no rival How could this new dog learn	A2
Himself a leader and used to his own wild way	B2
How could he learn to be one of the pack and obey	B2
Would he not fight for mastery hopeless they caught their breath	H2
Were they not leading this friend they loved to death	H2
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And now the crisis was on them they saw camp now	A2
Two men in a fragile boat and a dog standing up in the prow	A2
They pushed the boat as near as they could to the bank	I2
And someone to help them land shoved out a plank	I2
The new dog leaped on the plank and the old dog bristling and proud	J2
Made one step to meet him in front of the crowd	J2
And they looked at each other a moment and the old dog lay on his back	G2
And the new dog stepped ashore the head of the pack	G2
'A very interesting story Why did you tell it to me '	-
Asked Wayne with his black eyes on her	I
'Why do you think ' asked Lee	-
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VI	-
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CANDLE light beams flickers and blazes	K2
On panelled pine walls fashioned of old	K
Pale pink roses in golden vases	L2
Hothouse grapes in a bowl of gold	K
Crystal goblets and plenty of them	M2
Flashing their points of rainbow light	V
Tall grave men servants bending above them	M2
Everyone talking with all his might	V
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'Why didn't Archie go with Jessie '	-
'My dear she didn't want him of course '	-
'Aren't things getting a trifle messy '	-
'There's nothing messy about divorce '	-
'Algy's a sort of weak Othello '	-
'Poor creature Jessie is quite a bird '	-
'I hear Nan's doing her room in yellow '	-
'Her room I think it's her hair you heard '	-
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'Tom never could resist a title '	-
'Well I'm rather a snob myself '	-
'The woman is large and rich and vital	N2
And does not mean to be laid on the shelf '	-
'Nonsense she's older than Tom's own mother	I
And ought to be laid on a couple of shelves '	-
While Lee and Wayne just talked to each other	I
Talked to each other about themselves	O2
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VII	-
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NELLIE and Edward left alone	A2
Feeling their house again their own	A2
Stood by the fire 'It seemed to me	-
The Great Man fell with a crash for Lee '	-
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'Nellie the dinner was very good '	-
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'Darling so glad you liked your food	T
I'm afraid it's all the fun you had	P2
With Mrs Wayne '	-
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'No not so bad	P2
I rather liked her The old girl said	A
Good things she's got a tongue in her head	A
But why the deuce need she look like that	Q2
She isn't old and she isn't fat	Q2
Wayne's probably generous certainly rich	R2
Why need she dress like a Salem witch '	-
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'Oh I could talk an hour ' said Nell	S2
'On the psychic basis of dressing well	S2
It isn't a question of pocket books	T2
It isn't a figure it isn't looks	T2
It isn't going to first rate places	L2
Believe me the thing has a psychic basis	U2
It's caring caring a terrible lot	J
Whether you're right or whether you're not	J
It's being a slave yet now and then	A2
Snapping your fingers at gods and men	A2
It's art it's genius it's using your mind	V2
What does the Bible say 'that kind	V2
Comes not forth but by fasting and prayer '	-
Well that's the answer you've got to care	W2
And Mrs Wayne clearly has not been caring	G
For twenty years about what she was wearing '	-
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NELLIE and Edward left alone	A2
Feeling their house again their own	A2
Stood by the fire 'It seemed to me	-
The Great Man fell with a crash for Lee '	-
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'Nellie the dinner was very good '	-
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'Darling so glad you liked your food	T
I'm afraid it's all the fun you had	P2
With Mrs Wayne '	-
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'No not so bad	P2
I rather liked her The old girl said	A
Good things she's got a tongue in her head	A
But why the deuce need she look like that	Q2
She isn't old and she isn't fat	Q2
Wayne's probably generous certainly rich	R2
Why need she dress like a Salem witch '	-
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'Oh I could talk an hour ' said Nell	S2
'On the psychic basis of dressing well	S2
It isn't a question of pocket books	T2
It isn't a figure it isn't looks	T2
It isn't going to first rate places	L2
Believe me the thing has a psychic basis	U2
It's caring caring a terrible lot	J
Whether you're right or whether you're not	J
It's being a slave yet now and then	A2
Snapping your fingers at gods and men	A2
It's art it's genius it's using your mind	V2
What does the Bible say 'that kind	V2
Comes not forth but by fasting and prayer '	-
Well that's the answer you've got to care	W2
And Mrs Wayne clearly has not been caring	G
For twenty years about what she was wearing '	-
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VII	-
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AT first the Waynes were silent driving home	X2
Park Avenue tilted southwa	B2