To An Old Lady In A Train Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGG HIJJKKL MM| HER hair was beautifully white | A |
| Beneath her bonnet black as night | A |
| Which plainly of New England kin | B |
| Was tied with strings beneath her chin | B |
| And when she spoke I had no choice | C |
| But listened to that soft crisp voice | C |
| And when she smiled I saw the truth | D |
| She had been lovely in her youth | D |
| And with those quick observing eyes | E |
| Was charming still to all the wise | E |
| And still in spite of bonnet strings | F |
| She thought keen quaint amusing things | F |
| With gaiety that many hold | G |
| Remarkable in one so old | G |
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| We talked ten minutes in a train | H |
| And when we came to part again | I |
| Good bye enjoy yourself ' said she | J |
| I told her that ahead of me | J |
| No pleasure beckoned no I said | K |
| Stern duty only lay ahead | K |
| Oh well ' her parting answer ran | L |
| Enjoy yourself the best you can ' | - |
| And so unconquerably gay | M |
| She went upon her darkening way | M |
Alice Duer Miller
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