The Choice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH| He'd have given me rolling lands | A |
| Houses of marble and billowing farms | B |
| Pearls to trickle between my hands | A |
| Smoldering rubies to circle my arms | B |
| You you'd only a lilting song | C |
| Only a melody happy and high | D |
| You were sudden and swift and strong | C |
| Never a thought for another had I | D |
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| He'd have given me laces rare | E |
| Dresses that glimmered with frosty sheen | F |
| Shining ribbons to wrap my hair | E |
| Horses to draw me as fine as a queen | F |
| You you'd only to whistle low | G |
| Gayly I followed wherever you led | H |
| I took you and I let him go | G |
| Somebody ought to examine my head | H |
Dorothy Parker
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