Temptation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB BBBB CCBB DDEE FFG| I WOULD like to wed your daughter ' said the multi millionaire | A |
| 'I will try to make her happy if I don't you needn't care | A |
| She shall have five million dollars just the minute we are married | B |
| Say the word and I will take her' but the maiden's father tarried | B |
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| 'Every luxury I'll give her she shall dress in finest raiment | B |
| And the moment we are married I shall make the wedding payment | B |
| She'll be worth five million dollars when the wedding vows are said | B |
| Will you say that it's a bargain ' but the father hung his head | B |
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| 'It is true I'm almost fifty and your daughter's scarce eighteen | C |
| But she'll live a life of splendor she shall be a social queen | C |
| She shall dine with kings and princes and by royalty be favored | B |
| And she'll have five million dollars' here the tempted father wavered | B |
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| Oh I would that I could write it that before the father's eyes | D |
| Came the picture of the baby that he'd learned to idolize | D |
| Came his little girl at evening for a romp upon his knee | E |
| Came the little roguish lassie of the days that used to be | E |
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| Had there come that very moment when he saw the rich man's check | F |
| Just a vision of his baby with her arms about his neck | F |
| Had his eyes turned back one minute to the days of long ago | G |
| Then he never would have wavered he'd have fairly shouted 'No ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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