Modern Love Xxv: You Like Not That French Novel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEEFCGGCHCCH| You like not that French novel Tell me why | A |
| You think it quite unnatural Let us see | B |
| The actors are it seems the usual three | B |
| Husband and wife and lover She but fie | C |
| In England we'll not hear of it Edmond | D |
| The lover her devout chagrin doth share | E |
| Blanc mange and absinthe are his penitent fare | E |
| Till his pale aspect makes her over fond | F |
| So to preclude fresh sin he tries rosbif | C |
| Meantime the husband is no more abused | G |
| Auguste forgives her ere the tear is used | G |
| Then hangeth all on one tremendous IF | C |
| If she will choose between them She does choose | H |
| And takes her husband like a proper wife | C |
| Unnatural My dear these things are life | C |
| And life some think is worthy of the Muse | H |
George Meredith
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