To Barine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHAH IJKJ FLML MMKM| If for your oath broken or word lightly spoken | A |
| A plague comes Barine to grieve you | B |
| If on tooth or on finger a black mark shall linger | C |
| Your beauty to mar I'll believe you | B |
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| But no sooner the fact is you bind as your tact is | D |
| Your head with the vows of untruth | E |
| Than you shine out more charming and what's more alarming | F |
| You come forth beloved of our youth | E |
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| It is advantageous but no less outrageous | G |
| Your poor mother's ashes to cheat | H |
| While the gods of creation and each constellation | A |
| You seem to regard as your meat | H |
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| Now Venus I own it is pleased to condone it | I |
| The good natured nymphs merely smile | J |
| And Cupid is merry 't is humorous very | K |
| And sharpens his arrows the while | J |
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| Our boys you are making the slaves for your taking | F |
| A new band is joined to the old | L |
| While the horrified matrons your juvenile patrons | M |
| In vain would bring back to the fold | L |
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| The thrifty old fellows your loveliness mellows | M |
| Confess to a dread of your house | M |
| But a more pressing duty in view of your beauty | K |
| Is the young wife's concern for her spouse | M |
Eugene Field
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