The Whistling Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF CGCG CHCH| Back 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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