The Summer Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD E EF GCGC HIJI GKGK ELEL| She's the jauntiest of creatures she's the daintiest of misses | A |
| With her pretty patent leathers or her alligator ties | B |
| With her eyes inviting glances and her lips inviting kisses | A |
| As she wanders by the ocean or strolls under country skies | B |
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| She's a captivating dresser and her parasols are stunning | C |
| Her fads will take your breath away her hats are dreams of style | D |
| She is not so very bookish but with repartee and punning | C |
| She can set the savants laughing and make even dudelets smile | D |
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| She has no attacks of talent she is not a stage struck maiden | E |
| She is wholly free from hobbies and she dreams of no 'career ' | - |
| She is mostly gay and happy never sad or care beladen | E |
| Though she sometimes sighs a little if a gentleman is near | F |
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| She's a sturdy little walker and she braves all kinds of weather | G |
| And when the rain or fog or mist drive rival crimps a wreck | C |
| Her fluffy hair goes curling like a kinked up ostrich feather | G |
| Around her ears and forehead and the white nape of her neck | C |
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| She is like a fish in water she can handle reins and racket | H |
| From head to toe and finger tips she's thoroughly alive | I |
| When she goes promenading in a most distracting jacket | J |
| The rustle round her feet suggests how laundresses may thrive | I |
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| She can dare the wind and sunshine in the most bravado manner | G |
| And after hours of sailing she has merely cheeks of rose | K |
| Old Sol himself seems smitten and at most will only tan her | G |
| Though to everybody else he gives a danger signal nose | K |
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| She's a trifle sentimental and she's fond of admiration | E |
| And she sometimes flirts a little in the season's giddy whirl | L |
| But win her if you can sir she may prove your life's salvation | E |
| For an angel masquerading oft is she the summer girl | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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