In Defense Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFG HHII JJKK LLMM NOK PPOO BBKK| You may say if you please Johnny Bull that our girls | A |
| Are crazy to marry your dukes and your earls | A |
| But I've heard that the maids of your own little isle | B |
| Greet bachelor lords with a favoring smile | B |
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| Nay titles 'tis said in defense of our fair | C |
| Are popular here because popular there | C |
| And for them our ladies persistently go | D |
| Because 'tis exceedingly English you know | D |
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| Whatever the motive you'll have to confess | E |
| The effort's attended with easy success | E |
| And pardon the freedom 'tis thought over here | F |
| 'Tis mortification you mask with a sneer | G |
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| It's all very well sir your scorn to parade | H |
| Of the high nasal twang of the Yankee maid | H |
| But ah to my lord when he dares to propose | I |
| No sound is so sweet as that 'Yes' from the nose | I |
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| Our ladies we grant walk alone in the street | J |
| Observe by the by on what delicate feet | J |
| 'Tis a habit they got here at home where they say | K |
| The men from politeness go seldom astray | K |
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| Ah well if the dukes and the earls and that lot | L |
| Can stand it God succor them if they cannot | L |
| Your commoners ought to assent I am sure | M |
| And what they 're not called on to suffer endure | M |
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| ''Tis nothing but money ' 'Your nobles are bought ' | - |
| As to that I submit it is commonly thought | N |
| That England's a country not specially free | O |
| Of Croesi and if you'll allow it Croesae | K |
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| You've many a widow and many a girl | P |
| With money to purchase a duke or an earl | P |
| 'Tis a very remarkable thing you'll agree | O |
| When goods import buyers from over the sea | O |
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| Alas for the woman of Albion's isle | B |
| She may simper as well as she can she may smile | B |
| She may wear pantalettes and an air of repose | K |
| But my lord of the future will talk through his nose | K |
Ambrose Bierce
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