The Whistling Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF CGCG CHCHBack of my back they talk of me | A |
Gabble and honk and hiss | B |
Let them batten and let them be | A |
Me I can sing them this | B |
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Better to shiver beneath the stars | C |
Head on a faithless breast | D |
Than peer at the night through rusted bars | C |
And share an irksome rest | D |
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Better to see the dawn come up | E |
Along of a trifling one | F |
Than set a steady man's cloth and cup | E |
And pray the day be done | F |
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Better be left by twenty dears | C |
Than lie in a loveless bed | G |
Better a loaf that's wet with tears | C |
Than cold unsalted bread | G |
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Back of my back they wag their chins | C |
Whinny and bleat and sigh | H |
But better a heart a bloom with sins | C |
Than hearts gone yellow and dry | H |
Dorothy Parker
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