The Danger Of Writing Defiant Verse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| And now I have another lad | A |
| No longer need you tell | B |
| How all my nights are slow and sad | A |
| For loving you too well | B |
| - | |
| His ways are not your wicked ways | C |
| He's not the like of you | D |
| He treads his path of reckoned days | C |
| A sober man and true | D |
| - | |
| They'll never see him in the town | E |
| Another on his knee | F |
| He'd cut his laden orchards down | E |
| If that would pleasure me | F |
| - | |
| He'd give his blood to paint my lips | G |
| If I should wish them red | H |
| He prays to touch my finger tips | G |
| Or stroke my prideful head | H |
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| He never weaves a glinting lie | I |
| Or brags the hearts he'll keep | J |
| I have forgotten how to sigh | I |
| Remembered how to sleep | J |
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| He's none to kiss away my mind | K |
| A slower way is his | L |
| Oh Lord On reading this I find | K |
| A silly lot he is | L |
Dorothy Parker
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