Freaks Of Fashion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EEFEEE GHIHGH JKEKEL CEEEEE MNENEN GOCPEO EOEEQK GEGEQE GOROGO OGEGEG GSESES ETETET MOOOOO| Such a hubbub in the nests | A |
| Such a bustle and squeak | B |
| Nestlings guiltless of a feather | C |
| Learning just to speak | B |
| Ask And how about the fashions | D |
| From a cavernous beak | B |
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| Perched on bushes perched on hedges | E |
| Perched on firm hahas | E |
| Perched on anything that holds them | F |
| Gay papas and grave mammas | E |
| Teach the knowledge thirsty nestlings | E |
| Hear the gay papas | E |
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| Robin says A scarlet waistcoat | G |
| Will be all the wear | H |
| Snug and also cheerful looking | I |
| For the frostiest air | H |
| Comfortable for the chest too | G |
| When one comes to plume and pair | H |
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| Neat gray hoods will be in vogue | J |
| Quoth a Jackdaw Glossy gray | K |
| Setting close yet setting easy | E |
| Nothing fly away | K |
| Suited to our misty mornings | E |
| A la negligee | L |
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| Flushing salmon flushing sulphur | C |
| Haughty Cockatoos | E |
| Answer Hoods may do for mornings | E |
| But for evenings choose | E |
| High head dresses curved like crescents | E |
| Such as well bred persons use | E |
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| Top knots yes yet more essential | M |
| Still a train or tail | N |
| Screamed the Peacock Gemmed and lustrous | E |
| Not too stiff and not too frail | N |
| Those are best which rearrange as | E |
| Fans and spread or trail | N |
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| Spoke the Swan entrenched behind | G |
| An inimitable neck | O |
| After all there's nothing sweeter | C |
| For the lawn or lake | P |
| Than simple white if fine and flaky | E |
| And absolutely free from speck | O |
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| Yellow hinted a Canary | E |
| Warmer not less distingue | O |
| Peach color put in a Lory | E |
| Cannot look outre | E |
| All the colors are in fashion | Q |
| And are right the Parrots say | K |
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| Very well But do contrast | G |
| Tints harmonious | E |
| Piped a Blackbird justly proud | G |
| Of bill aurigerous | E |
| Half the world may learn a lesson | Q |
| As to that from us | E |
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| Then a Stork took up the word | G |
| Aim at height and chic | O |
| Not high heels they're common somehow | R |
| Stilted legs not thick | O |
| Nor yet thin he just glanced downward | G |
| And snapped to his beak | O |
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| Here a rustling and a whirring | O |
| As of fans outspread | G |
| Hinted that mammas felt anxious | E |
| Lest the next thing said | G |
| Might prove less than quite judicious | E |
| Or even underbred | G |
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| So a mother Auk resumed | G |
| The broken thread of speech | S |
| Let colors sort themselves my dears | E |
| Yellow or red or peach | S |
| The main points as it seems to me | E |
| We mothers have to teach | S |
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| Are form and texture elegance | E |
| An air reserved sublime | T |
| The mode of wearing what we wear | E |
| With due regard to month and clime | T |
| But now let's all compose ourselves | E |
| It's almost breakfast time | T |
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| A hubbub a squeak a bustle | M |
| Who cares to chatter or sing | O |
| With delightful breakfast coming | O |
| Yet they whisper under the wing | O |
| So we may wear whatever we like | O |
| Anything everything | O |
Christina Rossetti
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