Symptom Recital Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ| I do not like my state of mind | A |
| I'm bitter querulous unkind | A |
| I hate my legs I hate my hands | B |
| I do not yearn for lovelier lands | B |
| I dread the dawn's recurrent light | C |
| I hate to go to bed at night | C |
| I snoot at simple earnest folk | D |
| I cannot take the gentlest joke | D |
| I find no peace in paint or type | E |
| My world is but a lot of tripe | E |
| I'm disillusioned empty breasted | F |
| For what I think I'd be arrested | F |
| I am not sick I am not well | G |
| My quondam dreams are shot to hell | G |
| My soul is crushed my spirit sore | H |
| I do not like me any more | H |
| I cavil quarrel grumble grouse | I |
| I ponder on the narrow house | I |
| I shudder at the thought of men | J |
| I'm due to fall in love again | J |
Dorothy Parker
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