The Belle's Soliloquy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIJGKIK GLMLNOAB PLGLPPGP PPFPPIPI| Heigh Ho Well the season s over | A |
| Once again we ve come to Lent | B |
| Programme s changes from balls and parties | C |
| Now we re ordered to repent | B |
| Forty days of self denial | D |
| Tell you what I think it pays | E |
| Know t l freshen my complexion | F |
| Going slow for forty days | E |
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| No more savoury French suppers | G |
| Such as Madame R can give | H |
| Well I need a little thinning | I |
| Just a trifle sure s you live | J |
| Sometimes been afraid my plumpness | G |
| Might grow into downright fat | K |
| Rector urges need of fasting | I |
| Think there s lot of truth in that | K |
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| We must meditate he tells us | G |
| On our several acts of sin | L |
| And repent them Let me see now | M |
| Whereabouts shall I begin | L |
| Flirting yes they say tis wicked | N |
| Well I m awful penitent | O |
| Wonder if my handsome major | A |
| Goes to early Mass though Lent | B |
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| Love of dress I m guilty there too | P |
| Guess it s my besetting sin | L |
| Still I m somewhat like the lillies | G |
| For I neither toil or spin | L |
| Forty days I ll wear my plainest | P |
| Could repentance be more true | P |
| What a saving on my dresses | G |
| They ll make over just like new | P |
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| Pride and worldliness and all that | P |
| Rector bade us pray about | P |
| Every day through Lenten season | F |
| And I mean to be devout | P |
| Papa always talks entrenchment | P |
| Lent is just the very thing | I |
| Hope he ll get enough in pocket | P |
| So we ll move up town next spring | I |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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