All The Rage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH BBJKKJ LMBNNB OPBQQB AARSSR TTHUUH VVPLLO WWBXXB YYRBBR NNHZA2HA common wayside flower it grew | A |
Unhandsome and unnoticed too | A |
Except in deprecation | B |
That such an herb unreared by toil | C |
Prolific cumberer of the soil | C |
Defied extermination | B |
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Its gorgeous blooms were never stirred | D |
By honey bee nor humming bird | D |
In their corollas dipping | E |
But they from clover white and red | F |
Delicious nectar drew instead | F |
In dainty rounds of sipping | E |
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No place its own euphonious name | G |
Within the catalogue might claim | G |
Of any flora lover | H |
For in the scores of passers by | I |
As yet no true artistic eye | I |
Its beauty could discover | H |
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The reaper with his sickle keen | B |
Aimed at its crest of gold and green | B |
With spiteful stroke relentless | J |
And would have rooted from the ground | K |
The Solidago blossom crowned | K |
But gaudy rank and scentless | J |
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But everything must have its day | L |
And since some fickle devotee | M |
Or myrmidon of Fashion | B |
Declares that this obnoxious weed | N |
From wild uncultivated seed | N |
Shall be the ruling passion | B |
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Effusive schoolgirls dote on it | O |
Whose frontispieces infinite | P |
That need no decoration | B |
Are hid beneath its golden dust | Q |
Till many a fine symmetric bust | Q |
Is lost to admiration | B |
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Smart dudes and ladies' men the few | A |
Who wish they could be ladies too | A |
Display a sprig of yellow | R |
Conspicuous in their buttonhole | S |
To captivate a maiden soul | S |
Or vex some other fellow | R |
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And spinsters of uncertain age | T |
Are clamoring now for all the rage | T |
To give a dash of color | H |
To their complexions which appear | U |
To be the hue they hold so dear | U |
Except a trifle duller | H |
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That negligee blue stocking friend | V |
Who never cared her time to spend | V |
On mysteries of the toilet | P |
Now wears a sumptuous bouquet | L |
And shakes your hand a mile away | L |
For fear that you will spoil it | O |
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Delightful widows dressed in black | W |
Complain with modest sighs they lack | W |
That coveted expression | B |
That sort of Indian Summer air | X |
Which relicts always ought to wear | X |
By general concession | B |
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And so lugubrious folds of crape | Y |
Are crimped and twisted into shape | Y |
With graceful heads of yellow | R |
That give a winsome toning down | B |
To sombre hat and sable gown | B |
In autumn tintings mellow | R |
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Alas we only hate the weed | N |
And think that it must be indeed | N |
The ladies' last endeavor | H |
To match the gentlemen who flaunt | Z |
That odious dried tobacco plant | A2 |
At which they puff forever | H |
Hattie Howard
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