A Few Lines To Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDEEFGFHHIIJJK KFFGGLLLLMMNNOOLLPLL QRGR| Girls | A |
| You with the bobbed hair or Mary Pickford curls | A |
| Likewise you others | B |
| Who still adopt the hair dressing style | C |
| That makes the moderns smile | C |
| But was undoubtedly the dearest attribute of your mothers | B |
| And by the by | D |
| You with the glad eye | D |
| We've seen you in the street | E |
| Looking particularly sweet | E |
| And we ask you | F |
| Do you think that those girls in the city that is reputed to possess a harbor | G |
| can overtask you | F |
| In the matter of looking nice | H |
| We do not seek to give advice | H |
| And frankly we don't know | I |
| We have seen both types and so | I |
| Being diplomatic | J |
| We refrain from expressing an opinion that is too emphatic | J |
| We'll leave it to the vote | K |
| Yet hasten to remark that we simply dote | K |
| Upon the maiden who | F |
| Is just like you | F |
| Fair reader | G |
| We seek not to assume the office or prerogative of a special pleader | G |
| And we own that this question of State Rights | L |
| Gives us uneasy dreams o' nights | L |
| Take no notice of those churls | L |
| Who tell you that the Sydney girls | L |
| Can put it all over you in regard to female beauty | M |
| My dears you have a duty | M |
| At any rate | N |
| Toward your State | N |
| Go in | O |
| And Win | O |
| Among you are undoubtedly quite a number of perfect peaches | L |
| And the sirens of the Sydney beaches | L |
| May yet be proved to be not exactly the pick of the basket | P |
| Girls | L |
| With or without curls | L |
| The honor of your State and the noble men therein ask it | Q |
| Here I conclude | R |
| And I trust that these few well chosen remarks have not been in bad taste or | G |
| over rude | R |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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