The Little Old Lady In Lavender Silk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEBE FGFG EHEH IJKJ DEDE| I was seventy seven come August | A |
| I shall shortly be losing my bloom | B |
| I've experienced zephyr and raw gust | A |
| And symbolical flood and simoom | B |
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| When you come to this time of abatement | C |
| To this passing from Summer to Fall | D |
| It is manners to issue a statement | C |
| As to what you got out of it all | D |
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| So I'll say though reflection unnerves me | B |
| And pronouncements I dodge as I can | E |
| That I think if my memory serves me | B |
| There was nothing more fun than a man | E |
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| In my youth when the crescent was too wan | F |
| To embarrass with beams from above | G |
| By the aid of some local Don Juan | F |
| I fell into the habit of love | G |
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| And I learned how to kiss and be merry an | E |
| Education left better unsung | H |
| My neglect of the waters Pierian | E |
| Was a scandal when Grandma was young | H |
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| Though the shabby unbalanced the splendid | I |
| And the bitter outmeasured the sweet | J |
| I should certainly do as I then did | K |
| Were I given the chance to repeat | J |
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| For contrition is hollow and wraithful | D |
| And regret is no part of my plan | E |
| And I think if my memory's faithful | D |
| There was nothing more fun than a man | E |
Dorothy Parker
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