Will Nobody Marry Me? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL| Heigh ho for a husband Heigh ho | A |
| There's danger in longer delay | B |
| Shall I never again have a beau | A |
| Will nobody marry me pray | B |
| I begin to feel strange I declare | C |
| With beauty my prospects will fade | D |
| I'd give myself up to despair | C |
| If I thought I should die an old maid | D |
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| I once cut the beaux in a huff | E |
| I thought it a sin and a shame | F |
| That no one had spirit enough | E |
| To ask me to alter my name | F |
| So I turned up my nose at the short | G |
| And cast down my eyes at the tall | H |
| But then I just did it in sport | G |
| And now I've no lover at all | H |
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| These men are the plague of my life | I |
| 'Tis hard from so many to choose | J |
| Should any one wish for a wife | I |
| Could I have the heart to refuse | J |
| I don't know for none have proposed | K |
| Oh dear me I'm frightened I vow | L |
| Good gracious who ever supposed | K |
| That I should be single till now | L |
George Pope Morris
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