Lais When Old Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDABBA EFGE FG| Lais when old and all her beauty gone | A |
| Lais the erstwhile courted pleasure queen | B |
| Walked homeless through Corinth | C |
| One mocked her mien | B |
| One tossed her coins she took them and passed on | D |
| Down by the harbour sloped a terraced lawn | A |
| Where fountains played she paused to view the scene | B |
| A marble palace stood in bowers of green | B |
| 'Twas here of old she revelled till the dawn | A |
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| Through yonder portico her lovers came | E |
| Hero and statesman athlete merchant sage | F |
| They flung the whole world's treasures at her feet | G |
| To buy her favour and exalt her shame | E |
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| She spat upon her dole of coins in rage | F |
| And faded like a phantom down the street | G |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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