The Offer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA ADD AEEA AAAA AFFA ACB| 'Tell me would you rather be | A |
| Changed by a fairy to the fine | B |
| Young orphan heiress Geraldine | C |
| Or still be Emily | A |
| - | |
| 'Consider ere you answer me | A |
| How many blessings are procured | D |
| By riches and how much endured | D |
| By chilling poverty ' | - |
| - | |
| After a pause said Emily | A |
| 'In the words orphan heiress I | E |
| Find many a solid reason why | E |
| I would not chang d be | A |
| - | |
| 'What though I live in poverty | A |
| And have of sisters eight so many | A |
| That few indulgencies if any | A |
| Fall to the share of me | A |
| - | |
| 'Think you that for wealth I'd be | A |
| Of even the least of them bereft | F |
| Or lose my parent and be left | F |
| An orphaned Emily | A |
| - | |
| 'Still should I be Emily | A |
| Although I looked like Geraldine | C |
| I feel within this heart of mine | B |
| No change could work d be ' | - |
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