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 LLMother 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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