Beauty Is Vain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEBE FGEGBHFH| While roses are so red | A |
| While lilies are so white | B |
| Shall a woman exalt her face | C |
| Because it gives delight | B |
| She's not so sweet as a rose | D |
| A lily's straighter than she | E |
| And if she were as red or white | B |
| She'd be but one of three | E |
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| Whether she flush in love's summer | F |
| Or in its winter grow pale | G |
| Whether she flaunt her beauty | E |
| Or hide it away in a veil | G |
| Be she red or white | B |
| And stand she erect or bowed | H |
| Time will win the race he runs with her | F |
| And hide her away in a shroud | H |
Christina Rossetti
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