If They Meant All They Said Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD| Charm is a woman's strongest arm | A |
| My charwoman is full of charm | A |
| I chose her not for strength of arm | A |
| But for her strange elusive charm | A |
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| And how tears heighten woman's powers | B |
| My typist weeps for hours and hours | B |
| I took her for her weeping powers | B |
| They so delight my business hours | B |
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| A woman lives by intuition | C |
| Though my accountant shuns addition | C |
| She has the rarest intuition | C |
| And I myself can do addition | C |
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| Timidity in girls is nice | D |
| My cook is so afraid of mice | D |
| Now you'll admit it's very nice | D |
| To feel your cook's afraid of mice | D |
Alice Duer Miller
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