The Vulgar Little Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ| But mamma now said Charlotte pray don't you believe | A |
| That I'm better than Jenny my nurse | B |
| Only see my red shoes and the lace on my sleeve | A |
| Her clothes are a thousand times worse | B |
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| I ride in my coach and have nothing to do | C |
| And the country folks stare at me so | D |
| And nobody dares to control me but you | C |
| Because I'm a lady you know | D |
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| Then servants are vulgar and I am genteel | E |
| So really 'tis out of the way | F |
| To think that I should not be better a deal | E |
| Than maids and such people as they | F |
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| Gentility Charlotte her mother replied | G |
| Belongs to no station or place | H |
| And there's nothing so vulgar as folly and pride | G |
| Though dress'd in red slippers and lace | H |
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| Not all the fine things that fine ladies possess | I |
| Should teach them the poor to despise | J |
| For 'tis in good manners and not in good dress | I |
| That the truest gentility lies | J |
Ann Taylor
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