For A Lady Who Must Write Verse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ| Unto seventy years and seven | A |
| Hide your double birthright well | B |
| You that are the brat of Heaven | A |
| And the pampered heir to Hell | B |
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| Let your rhymes be tinsel treasures | C |
| Strung and seen and thrown aside | D |
| Drill your apt and docile measures | C |
| Sternly as you drill your pride | D |
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| Show your quick alarming skill in | E |
| Tidy mockeries of art | F |
| Never never dip your quill in | E |
| Ink that rushes from your heart | F |
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| When your pain must come to paper | G |
| See it dust before the day | H |
| Let your night light curl and caper | G |
| Let it lick the words away | H |
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| Never print poor child a lay on | I |
| Love and tears and anguishing | J |
| Lest a cooled benignant Phaon | I |
| Murmur Silly little thing | J |
Dorothy Parker
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