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