Of A Woman, Dead Young Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGCCHI JKJLMNOFPD| J H | A |
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| If she had been beautiful even | B |
| Or wiser than women about her | C |
| Or had moved with a certain defiance | D |
| If she had had sons at her sides | E |
| And she with her hands on their shoulders | F |
| Sons to make troubled the Gods | G |
| But where was there wonder in her | C |
| What had she better or eviler | C |
| Whose days were a pattering of peas | H |
| From the pod to the bowl in her lap | I |
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| That the pine tree is blasted by lightning | J |
| And the bowlder split raw from the mountain | K |
| And the river dried short in its rushing | J |
| That I can know and be humble | L |
| But that They who have trodden the stars | M |
| Should turn from Their echoing highway | N |
| To trample a daisy unnoticed | O |
| In a meadow of small open flowers | F |
| Where is Their triumph in that | P |
| Where is Their pride and Their vengeance | D |
Dorothy Parker
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