In The Edgware Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBDEDEDFDFDFGDGD GDHDID| TO LORD | A |
| WILL you not buy She asks you my lord you | B |
| Who know the points desirable in such | C |
| She does not say that she is perfect True | B |
| She's not too pleasant to the sight or touch | C |
| But then neither are you | B |
| Her cheeks are rather fallen in a mist | D |
| Glazes her eyes for all their hungry glare | E |
| Her lips do not breathe balmy when they're kissed | D |
| And yet she's not more loathsome than I swear | E |
| Your grandmother at whist | D |
| My lord she will admit and need not frame | F |
| Excuses for herself that she's not chaste | D |
| First a young lover had her then she came | F |
| From one man's to another's arms with haste | D |
| Your mother did the same | F |
| Moreover since she's married once or twice | G |
| She's sold herself for certain things at night | D |
| To sell one's body for the highest price | G |
| Of social ease and power all girls think right | D |
| Your sister did it thrice | G |
| What you'll not buy You'll curse at her instead | D |
| Her children are alone at home quite near | H |
| These winter streets so gay at nights 'tis said | D |
| Have 'ticed the wanton out She could not hear | I |
| Her children cry for bread | D |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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