The Dover Bitch: A Criticism Of Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGCHIJKDLMNOPCQ RSTUVWTXW Y| So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl | A |
| With the cliffs of England crumbling away behind them | B |
| And he said to her 'Try to be true to me | C |
| And I'll do the same for you for things are bad | D |
| All over etc etc ' | E |
| Well now I knew this girl It's true she had read | F |
| Sophocles in a fairly good translation | G |
| And caught that bitter allusion to the sea | C |
| But all the time he was talking she had in mind | H |
| the notion of what his whiskers would feel like | I |
| On the back of her neck She told me later on | J |
| That after a while she got to looking out | K |
| At the lights across the channel and really felt sad | D |
| Thinking of all the wine and enormous beds | L |
| And blandishments in French and the perfumes | M |
| And then she got really angry To have been brought | N |
| All the way down from London and then be addressed | O |
| As sort of a mournful cosmic last resort | P |
| Is really tough on a girl and she was pretty | C |
| Anyway she watched him pace the room | Q |
| and finger his watch chain and seem to sweat a bit | R |
| And then she said one or two unprintable things | S |
| But you mustn't judge her by that What I mean to say is | T |
| She's really all right I still see her once in a while | U |
| And she always treats me right We have a drink | V |
| And I give her a good time and perhaps it's a year | W |
| Before I see her again but there she is | T |
| Running to fat but dependable as they come | X |
| And sometimes I bring her a bottle of Nuit d'Amour | W |
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| Note See Matthew Arnold's poem 'Dover Beach' | Y |
Anthony Evan Hecht
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