A Remonstrance With The Fair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGCGC HIHIJKJK LMLMCCCC LMMMNONO MCMCGPGP| There are thoughts that the mind cannot fathom | A |
| The mind of the animal male | B |
| But woman abundantly hath 'em | A |
| And mostly her notions prevail | B |
| And why ladies read what they DO read | C |
| Is a thing that no man may explain | D |
| And if any one asks for a true rede | C |
| He asketh in vain | D |
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| Ah why is each passing depression | E |
| Of stories that gloomily bore | F |
| Received as the subtle expression | E |
| Of almost unspeakable lore | F |
| In the dreary the sickly the grimy | G |
| Say why do our women delight | C |
| And wherefore so constantly ply me | G |
| With Ships in the Night | C |
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| Dear ladies in vain you approach us | H |
| With books to your taste in your hands | I |
| For alas though you offer to coach us | H |
| Yet the soul of no man understands | I |
| Why the grubby is always the moral | J |
| Why the nasty's preferred to the nice | K |
| While you keep up a secular quarrel | J |
| With a gay little Vice | K |
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| Yes a Vice with her lips full of laughter | L |
| A Vice with a rose in her hair | M |
| You condemn in the present and after | L |
| To darkness of utter despair | M |
| But a sin if no rapture redeem it | C |
| But a passion that's pale and played out | C |
| Or in surgical hands you esteem it | C |
| Worth scribbling about | C |
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| What is sauce for the goose for the gander | L |
| Is sauce ye inconsequent fair | M |
| It is better to laugh than to maunder | M |
| And better is mirth than despair | M |
| And though Life's not all beer and all skittles | N |
| Yet the Sun on occasion can shine | O |
| And mon Dieu he's a fool who belittles | N |
| This cosmos of Thine | O |
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| There are cakes there is ale ay and ginger | M |
| Shall be hot in the mouth as of old | C |
| And a villain with cloak and with whinger | M |
| And a hero in armour of gold | C |
| And a maid with a face like a lily | G |
| With a heart that is stainless and gay | P |
| Make a tale worth a world of the silly | G |
| Sad trash of to day | P |
Andrew Lang
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