Adulations Artful Aid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCD AEAECFCCF AGAGDHDDH AIAJJCKKC| Some of us may be tall ma'am | A |
| Some of us may be dark | B |
| Some handsome tho' not all ma'am | A |
| Are touched by Beatury's spark | B |
| But tall and dark AND handsome too | C |
| Oh lady If you please | D |
| It's really very nice of you | C |
| But do you think they're really due | C |
| Superlatives like these | D |
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| We'd hate to doubt your word ma'am | A |
| Since you're informed in art | E |
| Tho' much we'd have preferred ma'am | A |
| To play a humbler part | E |
| But in meek deference to you | C |
| Well lady we'll admit | F |
| We're tall and dark and handsome too | C |
| It seems a rather boastful view | C |
| But one gets used to it | F |
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| And now we're getting used ma'am | A |
| To thoughts that flattery brings | G |
| You might well be induced ma'am | A |
| To say some more nice things | G |
| Are there not moral qualities | D |
| Innate in each rare male | H |
| That one of your discernment sees | D |
| Truth strength wit wisdom things like these | D |
| Speak ma'am Let truth prevail | H |
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| We're so unused to praise ma'am | A |
| So used to blame most dire | I |
| That flattery these days ma'am | A |
| Creates a new desire | J |
| A complex quite inferior | J |
| See Freud its sickly hue | C |
| Cast o'er us But if you'd say more | K |
| Along such lines why then Encore | K |
| Thanks ma'am The same to you | C |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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