The Queen Of Hearts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGG HHII JJKK LLMN HGAA| How comes it Flora that whenever we | A |
| Play cards together you invariably | A |
| However the pack parts | B |
| Still hold the Queen of Hearts | B |
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| I've scanned you with a scrutinizing gaze | C |
| Resolved to fathom these your secret ways | C |
| But sift them as I will | D |
| Your ways are secret still | D |
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| I cut and shuffle shuffle cut again | E |
| But all my cutting shuffling proves in vain | F |
| Vain hope vain forethought too | G |
| That Queen still falls to you | G |
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| I dropped her once prepense but ere the deal | H |
| Was dealt your instinct seemed her loss to feel | H |
| There should be one card more | I |
| You said and searched the floor | I |
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| I cheated once I made a private notch | J |
| In Heart Queen's back and kept a lynx eyed watch | J |
| Yet such another back | K |
| Deceived me in the pack | K |
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| The Queen of Clubs assumed by arts unknown | L |
| An imitative dint that seemed my own | L |
| This notch not of my doing | M |
| Misled me to my ruin | N |
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| It baffles me to puzzle out the clew | H |
| Which must be skill or craft or luck in you | G |
| Unless indeed it be | A |
| Natural affinity | A |
Christina Rossetti
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