To Marry Or Not To Marry? (a Girl's Reverie) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH AA CC AA IJ KK LL| Mother says Be in no hurry | A |
| Marriage oft means care and worry | A |
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| Auntie says with manner grave | B |
| Wife is synonym for slave | B |
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| Father asks in tones commanding | C |
| How does Bradstreet rate his standing | C |
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| Sister crooning to her twins | D |
| Sighs With marriage care begins | D |
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| Grandma near life's closing days | E |
| Murmurs Sweet are girlhood's ways | E |
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| Maud twice widowed sod and grass | F |
| Looks at me and moans Alas | F |
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| They are six and I am one | G |
| Life for me has just begun | G |
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| They are older calmer wiser | H |
| Age should aye be youth's adviser | H |
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| They must know and yet dear me | A |
| When in Harry's eyes I see | A |
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| All the world of love there burning | C |
| On my six advisers turning | C |
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| I make answer Oh but Harry | A |
| Is not like most men who marry | A |
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| Fate has offered me a prize | I |
| Life with love means Paradise | J |
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| Life without it is not worth | K |
| All the foolish joys of earth | K |
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| So in spite of all they say | L |
| I shall name the wedding day | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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