She Is Overheard Singing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBEB FGHG AI CI JKLK MNON PQRQ STUT AV UV BWCX| Oh Prue she has a patient man | A |
| And Joan a gentle lover | B |
| And Agatha's Arth' is a hug the hearth | C |
| But my true love's a rover | B |
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| Mig her man's as good as cheese | D |
| And honest as a briar | B |
| Sue tells her love what he's thinking of | E |
| But my dear lad's a liar | B |
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| Oh Sue and Prue and Agatha | F |
| Are thick with Mig and Joan | G |
| They bite their threads and shake their heads | H |
| And gnaw my name like a bone | G |
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| And Prue says Mine's a patient man | A |
| As never snaps me up | I |
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| And Agatha Arth' is a hug the hearth | C |
| Could live content in a cup | I |
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| Sue's man's mind is like good jell | J |
| All one color and clear | K |
| And Mig's no call to think at all | L |
| What's to come next year | K |
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| While Joan makes boast of a gentle lad | M |
| That's troubled with that and this | N |
| But they all would give the life they live | O |
| For a look from the man I kiss | N |
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| Cold he slants his eyes about | P |
| And few enough's his choice | Q |
| Though he'd slip me clean for a nun or a queen | R |
| Or a beggar with knots in her voice | Q |
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| And Agatha will turn awake | S |
| While her good man sleeps sound | T |
| And Mig and Sue and Joan and Prue | U |
| Will hear the clock strike round | T |
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| For Prue she has a patient man | A |
| As asks not when or why | V |
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| And Mig and Sue have naught to do | U |
| But peep who's passing by | V |
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| Joan is paired with a putterer | B |
| That bastes and tastes and salts | W |
| And Agatha's Arth' is a hug the hearth | C |
| But my true love is false | X |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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