Soiled Dove Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGAHIJHHKL| Let us be honest the lady was not a harlot until she | A |
| married a corporation lawyer who picked her from | B |
| a Ziegfeld chorus | C |
| Before then she never took anybody's money and paid | D |
| for her silk stockings out of what she earned singing | E |
| and dancing | E |
| She loved one man and he loved six women and the | F |
| game was changing her looks calling for more and | G |
| more massage money and high coin for the beauty | A |
| doctors | H |
| Now she drives a long underslung motor car all by herself | I |
| reads in the day's papers what her husband is | J |
| doing to the inter state commerce commission requires | H |
| a larger corsage from year to year and wonders | H |
| sometimes how one man is coming along with | K |
| six women | L |
Carl Sandburg
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