To A New York Shop-girl Dressed For Sunday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ BB KK LLL MMM NNOO PQ RRAA SS TT UU VW SS SS XX YY ZZ SS A2A2 B2B2 SS| To day I saw the shop girl go | A |
| Down gay Broadway to meet her beau | A |
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| Conspicuous splendid conscious sweet | B |
| She spread abroad and took the street | B |
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| And all that niceness would forbid | C |
| Superb she smiled upon and did | C |
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| Let other girls whose happier days | D |
| Preserve the perfume of their ways | D |
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| Go modestly The passing hour | E |
| Adds splendor to their opening flower | E |
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| But from this child too swift a doom | F |
| Must steal her prettiness and bloom | F |
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| Toil and weariness hide the grace | G |
| That pleads a moment from her face | G |
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| So blame her not if for a day | H |
| She flaunts her glories while she may | H |
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| She half perceives half understands | I |
| Snatching her gifts with both her hands | I |
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| The little strut beneath the skirt | J |
| That lags neglected in the dirt | J |
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| The indolent swagger down the street | B |
| Who can condemn such happy feet | B |
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| Innocent vulgar that's the truth | K |
| Yet with the darling wiles of youth | K |
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| The bright self conscious eyes that stare | L |
| With such hauteur beneath such hair | L |
| Perhaps the men will find me fair | L |
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| Charming and charmed flippant arrayed | M |
| Fluttered and foolish proud displayed | M |
| Infinite pathos of parade | M |
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| The bangles and the narrowed waist | N |
| The tinsled boa forgive the taste | N |
| Oh the starved nights she gave for that | O |
| And bartered bread to buy her hat | O |
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| She flows before the reproachful sage | P |
| And begs her woman's heritage | Q |
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| Dear child with the defiant eyes | R |
| Insolent with the half surmise | R |
| We do not quite admire I know | A |
| How foresight frowns on this vain show | A |
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| And judgment wearily sad may see | S |
| No grace in such frivolity | S |
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| Yet which of us was ever bold | T |
| To worship Beauty hungry and cold | T |
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| Scorn famine down proudly expressed | U |
| Apostle to what things are best | U |
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| Let him who starves to buy the food | V |
| For his soul's comfort find her good | W |
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| Nor chide the frills and furbelows | S |
| That are the prettiest things she knows | S |
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| Poet and prophet in God's eyes | S |
| Make no more perfect sacrifice | S |
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| Who knows before what inner shrine | X |
| She eats with them the bread and wine | X |
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| Poor waif One of the sacred few | Y |
| That madly sought the best they knew | Y |
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| Dear let me lean my cheek to night | Z |
| Close close to yours Ah that is right | Z |
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| How warm and near At last I see | S |
| One beauty shines for thee and me | S |
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| So let us love and understand | A2 |
| Whose hearts are hidden in God's hand | A2 |
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| And we will cherish your brief Spring | B2 |
| And all its fragile flowering | B2 |
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| God loves all prettiness and on this | S |
| Surely his angels lay their kiss | S |
Anna Hempstead Branch
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