Old Town Types No. 23 - Little Miss Mix Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEDDBBF GGHIJ KK LLMMNND| In a rather tiny building at the bottom of the street | A |
| With a green door and a window small and very neat | A |
| With its shock of beads and button cards cottons bones and braid | B |
| Miss Mix the village dressmaker plied a modest trade | B |
| The front shop with its counter was a miniature affair | C |
| And trivial the business that was conducted there | C |
| But the back room the workroom 'Hours from Nine to Six' | D |
| Was a vestal shrine whose priestess was little Miss Mix | D |
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| Tho' man had never gazed within the sanctum held 'twas known | E |
| A wealth of female mysteries for female eyes alone | E |
| Dress dummies skirt stands a host of fashion fads | D |
| Hip improvers buckram shapes curious bustle pads | D |
| But Mr Mole who owned a store and sold things ready made | B |
| Was oft times strangely bitter over Miss Mix and her trade | B |
| 'A tittle tattle factory ' said he 'A gossip shop | F |
| With its babbling cotton biters Why the thing had ought to stop ' | - |
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| And many another male declared that Mr Mole was right | G |
| Chiefly husbands for the charges of Miss Mix were never light | G |
| And tho' they talked in that back room of fashion style and cost | H |
| Many characters were shattered many reputations lost | I |
| As scraps of spiteful sibilants came drifting thro' that door | J |
| 'A hussy dear ' 'Such goings on ' 'And I heard something more ' | - |
| And many an unsuspecting wench was hounded to her doom | K |
| In mousey little Miss Mix's little back room | K |
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| When last I saw the old town nigh twenty years ago | L |
| Its street was little altered its tempo still was slow | L |
| But where the wee dressmaker's shop in old days used to stand | M |
| A 'modern' shop front glittered very 'arty ' very grand | M |
| Now Miss Mix was known as Sarah in the days when I was young | N |
| And her trade was 'Plain Dressmaking' but now a shingle swung | N |
| All done in fancy wrought iron with twirls and scrolls and tricks | D |
| 'Costumiere Parisian Modes Direction Sara Miques ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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