Vain Gratuities Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDCDDC| Never was there a man much uglier | A |
| In eyes of other women or more grim | B |
| The Lord has filled her chalice to the brim | B |
| So let us pray she's a philosopher | A |
| They said and there was more they said of her | A |
| Deeming it after twenty years with him | B |
| No wonder that she kept her figure slim | B |
| And always made you think of lavender | A |
| - | |
| But she demure as ever and as fair | C |
| Almost as they remembered her before | D |
| She found him would have laughed had she been there | C |
| And all they said would have been heard no more | D |
| Than foam that washes on an island shore | D |
| Where there are none to listen or to care | C |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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