A Man's Ideal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHCIJKLCMKNOPQ| A lovely little keeper of the home | A |
| Absorbed in menu books yet erudite | B |
| When I need counsel quick at repartee | C |
| And slow to anger Modest as a flower | D |
| Yet scintillant and radiant as a star | E |
| Unmercenary in her mould of mind | F |
| While opulent and dainty in her tastes | G |
| A nature generous and free albeit | H |
| The incarnation of economy | C |
| She must be chaste as proud Diana was | I |
| Yet warm as Venus To all others cold | J |
| As some white glacier glittering in the sun | K |
| To me as ardent as the sensuous rose | L |
| That yields its sweetness to the burrowing bee | C |
| All ignorant of evil in the world | M |
| And innocent as any cloistered nun | K |
| Yet wise as Phryne in the arts of love | N |
| When I come thirsting to her nectared lips | O |
| Good as the best and tempting as the worst | P |
| A saint a siren and a paradox | Q |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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