A Ring Posy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDEDC FGFHF IJIIJI| Jess and Jill are pretty girls | A |
| Plump and well to do | B |
| In a cloud of windy curls | A |
| Yet I know who | B |
| Loves me more than curls or pearls | A |
| - | |
| I'm not pretty not a bit | C |
| Thin and sallow pale | D |
| When I trudge along the street | E |
| I don't need a veil | D |
| Yet I have one fancy hit | C |
| - | |
| Jess and Jill can trill and sing | F |
| With a flute like voice | G |
| Dance as light as bird on wing | F |
| Laugh for careless joys | H |
| Yet it's I who wear the ring | F |
| - | |
| Jess and Jill will mate some day | I |
| Surely surely | J |
| Ripen on to June through May | I |
| While the sun shines make their hay | I |
| Slacken steps demurely | J |
| Yet even there I lead the way | I |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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