Ballade Of The Girton Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDBD CBCBBDBD CBCBBDBD E BDBD| She has just put her gown on at Girton | A |
| She is learned in Latin and Greek | B |
| But lawn tennis she plays with a skirt on | C |
| That the prudish remark with a shriek | B |
| In her accents perhaps she is weak | B |
| Ladies ARE one observes with a sigh | D |
| But in Algebra THERE she's unique | B |
| But her forte's to evaluate pi | D |
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| She can talk about putting a spirt on | C |
| I admit an unmaidenly freak | B |
| And she dearly delighteth to flirt on | C |
| A punt in some shadowy creek | B |
| Should her bark by mischance spring a leak | B |
| She can swim as a swallow can fly | D |
| She can fence she can put with a cleek | B |
| But her forte's to evaluate pi | D |
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| She has lectured on Scopas and Myrton | C |
| Coins vases mosaics the antique | B |
| Old tiles with the secular dirt on | C |
| Old marbles with noses to seek | B |
| And her Cobet she quotes by the week | B |
| And she's written on Greek text kev and on Greek text kai | D |
| And her service is swift and oblique | B |
| But her forte's to evaluate pi | D |
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| ENVOY | E |
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| Princess like a rose is her cheek | B |
| And her eyes are as blue as the sky | D |
| And I'd speak had I courage to speak | B |
| But her forte's to evaluate pi | D |
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