How Beauty Contrived To Get Square With The Beast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDECCE FFGHHGIICCCC HHHJJHKKHLLH MMHCCHNNCOOC HHPHHPGGCQQC MMRSSRCCHHHH HHHHHHKKGHHT HHKK| Miss Guinevere Platt | A |
| Was so beautiful that | A |
| She couldn't remember the day | B |
| When one of her swains | C |
| Hadn't taken the pains | C |
| To send her a mammoth bouquet | B |
| And the postman had found | D |
| On the whole of his round | D |
| That no one received such a lot | E |
| Of bulky epistles | C |
| As waiting his whistles | C |
| The beautiful Guinevere got | E |
| - | |
| A significant sign | F |
| That her charm was divine | F |
| Was seen in society when | G |
| The chaperons sniffed | H |
| With their eyebrows alift | H |
| Whatever's got into the men | G |
| There was always a man | I |
| Who was holding her fan | I |
| And twenty that danced in details | C |
| And a couple of mourners | C |
| Who brooded in corners | C |
| And gnawed their mustaches and nails | C |
| - | |
| John Jeremy Platt | H |
| Wouldn't stay in the flat | H |
| For his beautiful daughter he missed | H |
| When he'd taken his tub | J |
| He would hie to his club | J |
| And dally with poker or whist | H |
| At the end of a year | K |
| It was perfectly clear | K |
| That he'd never computed the cost | H |
| For he hadn't a penny | L |
| To settle the many | L |
| Ten thousands of dollars he'd lost | H |
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| F Ferdinand Fife | M |
| Was a student of life | M |
| He was coarse and excessively fat | H |
| With a beard like a goat's | C |
| But he held all the notes | C |
| Of ruined John Jeremy Platt | H |
| With an adamant smile | N |
| That was brimming with guile | N |
| He said I am took with the face | C |
| Of your beautiful daughter | O |
| And wed me she ought ter | O |
| To save you from utter disgrace | C |
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| Miss Guinevere Platt | H |
| Didn't hesitate at | H |
| Her duty's imperative call | P |
| When they looked at the bride | H |
| All the chaperons cried | H |
| She isn't so bad after all | P |
| Of the desolate men | G |
| There were something like ten | G |
| Who took up political lives | C |
| And the flower of the flock | Q |
| Went and fell off a dock | Q |
| And the rest married hideous wives | C |
| - | |
| But the beautiful wife | M |
| Of F Ferdinand Fife | M |
| Was the wildest that ever was known | R |
| She'd grumble and glare | S |
| Till the man didn't dare | S |
| To say that his soul was his own | R |
| She sneered at his ills | C |
| And quadrupled his bills | C |
| And spent nearly twice what he earned | H |
| Her husband deserted | H |
| And frivoled and flirted | H |
| Till Ferdinand's reason was turned | H |
| - | |
| He repented too late | H |
| And his terrible fate | H |
| Upon him so heavily sat | H |
| That he swore at the day | H |
| When he sat down to play | H |
| At cards with John Jeremy Platt | H |
| He was dead in a year | K |
| And the fair Guinevere | K |
| In society sparkled again | G |
| While the chaperons fluttered | H |
| Their fans as they muttered | H |
| She's getting exceedingly plain | T |
| - | |
| - | |
| The Moral Predicaments often are found | H |
| That beautiful duty is apt to get round | H |
| But greedy extortioners better beware | K |
| For dutiful beauty is apt to get square | K |
Guy Wetmore Carryl
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