Ballad Of Women I Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABDBBCBC ABABBCBC| Prudence Mears hath an old blue plate | A |
| Hid away in an oaken chest | B |
| And a Franklin platter of ancient date | A |
| Beareth Amandy Baker's crest | B |
| What times soever I've been their guest | B |
| Says I to myself in an undertone | C |
| Of womenfolk it must be confessed | B |
| These do I love and these alone | C |
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| Well again in the Nutmeg State | A |
| Dorothy Pratt is richly blest | B |
| With a relic of art and a land effete | D |
| A pitcher of glass that's cut not pressed | B |
| And a Washington teapot is possessed | B |
| Down in Pelham by Marthy Stone | C |
| Think ye now that I say in jest | B |
| These do I love and these alone | C |
| - | |
| Were Hepsy Higgins inclined to mate | A |
| Or Dorcas Eastman prone to invest | B |
| In Cupid's bonds they could find their fate | A |
| In the bootless bard of Crockery Quest | B |
| For they've heaps of trumpery so have the rest | B |
| Of those spinsters whose ware I'd like to own | C |
| You can see why I say with such certain zest | B |
| These do I love and these alone | C |
Eugene Field
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