To The Lady In The Electric Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD DCDCDCDC EFEFEGEG DHDHDCDC EDEDDCDC| Lady in the show case carriage | A |
| Do not think that I'm a bear | B |
| Not for worlds would I disparage | A |
| One so gracious and so fair | B |
| Do not think that I am blind to | C |
| One who has a smile seraphic | D |
| You I'd never be unkind to | C |
| But you are impeding traffic | D |
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| If I had some way of knowing | D |
| What you are about to do | C |
| Just exactly where you're going | D |
| If I could depend on you | C |
| I could keep my engine churning | D |
| Travel on and never mind you | C |
| Lady when you think of turning | D |
| Why not signal us behind you | C |
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| Lady free from care and worry | E |
| Riding in your plate glass car | F |
| Some of us are in a hurry | E |
| Some of us must travel far | F |
| I myself am eager very | E |
| To be journeying on my way | G |
| Lady is it necessary | E |
| To monopolize the highway | G |
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| Lady at the handle steering | D |
| Why not keep a course that's straight | H |
| Know you not that wildly veering | D |
| As you do is tempting fate | H |
| Do not think my horn I'm blowing | D |
| Just on purpose to harass you | C |
| It is just a signal showing | D |
| That I'd safely like to pass you | C |
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| Lady there are times a duty | E |
| Must be done however saddening | D |
| It is hard to tell a beauty | E |
| That she's very often maddening | D |
| And I would not now be saying | D |
| Harsh and cruel words to fuss you | C |
| But when traffic you're delaying | D |
| You are forcing men to cuss you | C |
Edgar Albert Guest
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