Portrait Of A Barmaid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD BB EE FF EB BB FF GG| Metallic waves of people jar | A |
| Through crackling green toward the bar | A |
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| Where on the tables chattering white | B |
| The sharp drinks quarrel with the light | B |
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| Those coloured muslin blinds the smiles | C |
| Shroud wooden faces in their wiles | C |
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| Sometimes they splash like water you | D |
| Yourself reflected in their hue | D |
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| The conversation loud and bright | B |
| Seems spinal bars of shunting light | B |
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| In firework spurting greenery | E |
| O complicate machinery | E |
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| For building Babel iron crane | F |
| Beneath your hair that blue ribbed mane | F |
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| In noise and murder like the sea | E |
| Without its mutability | B |
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| Outside the bar where jangling heat | B |
| Seems out of tune and off the beat | B |
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| A concertina's glycerine | F |
| Exudes and mirrors in the green | F |
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| Your soul pure glucose edged with hints | G |
| Of tentative and half soiled tints | G |
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
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