Overheard In A Conservatory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDEEFFGGHIJJKKHH LLMMNNOPPQQBBRSTUUVR VJJWXMM| HE after a pause Dear are you angry | A |
| SHE Yes though not at you | B |
| But at myself Of course we know it's true | B |
| That when a man respects a girl | C |
| HE interrupting I thought | D |
| You'd say that It's the nonsense girls are taught | D |
| You know as well as I do I revere | E |
| You more than any other woman dear | E |
| SHE indignantly You'd not have done it to Elfrida Hood | F |
| HE Immortal gods I shouldn't think I would | F |
| SHE haughtily If this but seems to you fit food for jest | G |
| I say no more Silence were plainly best | G |
| HE very seriously Dear if I jest it is because I read | H |
| The hopelessness of aught that I could plead | I |
| In your stern eyes which righteous wrath betray | J |
| Were you another woman I should say | J |
| That you were fair and I it seems was mad | K |
| But that the last long waltz that we had had | K |
| Might very well have turned a wiser head | H |
| A hundred things like this I might have said | H |
| To women who would take them as excuse | L |
| You think none possible so what's the use | L |
| SHE Then why discuss it further Let us go | M |
| HE One minute I should like you first to know | M |
| I did not think that this would be the end | N |
| When two weeks since you said you'd be my friend | N |
| SHE reflectively Only two weeks | O |
| HE Not long 'tis true and yet | P |
| You've stopped my doing much I should regret | P |
| Nor should I murmur that you teach how far | Q |
| More hard than others all good women are | Q |
| SHE emphatically That is not true indeed it is not true | B |
| Some men I could forgive this but not you | B |
| You would go home and smile and think I meant | R |
| I viewed it merely as a | S |
| HE politely Precedent | T |
| Was that the word Indeed in this respect | U |
| You wrong to say the least my intellect | U |
| If you forgave me I should understand | V |
| Just what it meant | R |
| SHE hastily Oh please let go my hand | V |
| Here is papa who comes I know to say | J |
| That it is late and time to go away | J |
| HE I do not care a bit how late it is | W |
| I only know we cannot part like this | X |
| Show me at least you do not doubt my sorrow | M |
| SHE hesitatingly Well come as usual at five to morrow | M |
Alice Duer Miller
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