I Know The Face Of Falsehood And Her Tongue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGGI know the face of Falsehood and her Tongue | A |
Honeyed with unction Plausible with guile | B |
Are dear to men whom count me not among | A |
That owe their daily credit to her smile | B |
Such have been succoured out of great distress | C |
By her contriving if accounts be true | D |
Their deference now above the board I guess | C |
Dishcharges what beneath the board is due | D |
As for myself I'd liefer lack her aid | E |
Than eat her presence let this building fall | F |
But let me never lift my latch afraid | E |
To hear her simpering accents in the hall | F |
Nor force an entrance past mephitic airs | G |
Of stale patchoulie hanging on my stairs | G |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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