The Red Dress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| I always saw I always said | A |
| If I were grown and free | B |
| I'd have a gown of reddest red | A |
| As fine as you could see | B |
| - | |
| To wear out walking sleek and slow | C |
| Upon a Summer day | D |
| And there'd be one to see me so | C |
| And flip the world away | D |
| - | |
| And he would be a gallant one | E |
| With stars behind his eyes | F |
| And hair like metal in the sun | E |
| And lips too warm for lies | F |
| - | |
| I always saw us gay and good | G |
| High honored in the town | H |
| Now I am grown to womanhood | G |
| I have the silly gown | H |
Dorothy Parker
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