To A Dancing Doll Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBC DEEDFEFE FF FFFFFFFF GEGEFFHIHI JEJE FFDEEDDCDC| Formal quaint precise and trim | A |
| You begin your steps demurely | B |
| There's a spirit almost prim | A |
| In the feet that move so surely | B |
| So discreetly to the chime | C |
| Of the music that so sweetly | B |
| Marks the time | C |
| - | |
| But the chords begin to tinkle | D |
| Quicker | E |
| And your feet they flash and flicker | E |
| Twinkle | D |
| Flash and flutter to a tricksy | F |
| Fickle meter | E |
| And you foot it like a pixie | F |
| Only fleeter | E |
| - | |
| Now our current dowdy | F |
| Things | F |
| - | |
| Turkey trots and rowdy | F |
| Flings | F |
| For they made you overseas | F |
| In politer times than these | F |
| In an age when grace could please | F |
| Ere St Vitus | F |
| Clutched and shook us spine and knees | F |
| Loosed a plague of jerks to smite us | F |
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| Well our day is far more brisk | G |
| And our manner rather slacker | E |
| And you are nothing more than bisque | G |
| And lacquer | E |
| But you shame us with the graces | F |
| Of courtlier times and places | F |
| When the cheap | H |
| And vulgar wasn't art | I |
| When the faunal prance and leap | H |
| Weren't smart | I |
| - | |
| Have we lost the trick of wedding | J |
| Grace to pleasure | E |
| Must we clown it at the bidding | J |
| Of some tawdry common measure | E |
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| Can't you school us in the graces | F |
| Of your pose and dainty paces | F |
| Now the chords begin to tinkle | D |
| Quicker | E |
| And your feet they flash and flicker | E |
| Twinkle | D |
| And you mock us as you featly | D |
| Swing and flutter to the chime | C |
| Of the music box that sweetly | D |
| Marks the time | C |
Don Marquis
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