Four Charades Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF HIJIJI CDID IKLK MNON PPQRRQSSTUUTA | |
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My first is no proof of my second | B |
Though my second's a proof of my first | C |
If I were my whole I should tell you | D |
Quite freely my best and my worst | C |
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One clue more if you fail to discover | E |
My meaning you're blind as a mole | F |
But if you will frankly confess it | G |
You show yourself clearly my whole | F |
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My first may be the firstborn | H |
The second child may be | I |
My second is a texture light | J |
And elegant to see | I |
My whole do those too often write | J |
Who are from talent free | I |
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How many authors are my first | C |
And I shall be so too | D |
Unless I finish speedily | I |
That which I have to do | D |
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My second is a lofty tree | I |
And a delicious fruit | K |
This in the hot house flourishes | L |
That amid rocks takes root | K |
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My whole is an immortal queen | M |
Renowned in classic lore | N |
Her a god won without her will | O |
And her a goddess bore | N |
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Me you often meet | P |
In London's crowded street | P |
And merry children's voices my resting place proclaim | Q |
Pictures and prose and verse | R |
Compose me I rehearse | R |
Evil and good and folly and call each by its name | Q |
I make men glad and I | S |
Can bid their senses fly | S |
And festive echoes know me of Isis and of Cam | T |
But give me to a friend | U |
And amity will end | U |
Though he may have the temper and meekness of a lamb | T |
Christina Rossetti
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