A Paraphrase, By Dr. I.w. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF| Why Mistress Chloe do you bother | A |
| With prattlings and with vain ado | B |
| Your worthy and industrious mother | A |
| Eschewing them that come to woo | B |
| - | |
| Oh that the awful truth might quicken | C |
| This stern conviction to your breast | D |
| You are no longer now a chicken | C |
| Too young to quit the parent nest | D |
| - | |
| So put aside your froward carriage | E |
| And fix your thoughts whilst yet there's time | F |
| Upon the righteousness of marriage | E |
| With some such godly man as I'm | F |
Eugene Field
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