All The Rage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH BBJKKJ LMBNNB OPBQQB AARSSR TTHUUH VVPLLO WWBXXB YYRBBR NNHZA2H

A common wayside flower it grewA
Unhandsome and unnoticed tooA
Except in deprecationB
That such an herb unreared by toilC
Prolific cumberer of the soilC
Defied exterminationB
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Its gorgeous blooms were never stirredD
By honey bee nor humming birdD
In their corollas dippingE
But they from clover white and redF
Delicious nectar drew insteadF
In dainty rounds of sippingE
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No place its own euphonious nameG
Within the catalogue might claimG
Of any flora loverH
For in the scores of passers byI
As yet no true artistic eyeI
Its beauty could discoverH
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The reaper with his sickle keenB
Aimed at its crest of gold and greenB
With spiteful stroke relentlessJ
And would have rooted from the groundK
The Solidago blossom crownedK
But gaudy rank and scentlessJ
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But everything must have its dayL
And since some fickle devoteeM
Or myrmidon of FashionB
Declares that this obnoxious weedN
From wild uncultivated seedN
Shall be the ruling passionB
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Effusive schoolgirls dote on itO
Whose frontispieces infiniteP
That need no decorationB
Are hid beneath its golden dustQ
Till many a fine symmetric bustQ
Is lost to admirationB
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Smart dudes and ladies' men the fewA
Who wish they could be ladies tooA
Display a sprig of yellowR
Conspicuous in their buttonholeS
To captivate a maiden soulS
Or vex some other fellowR
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And spinsters of uncertain ageT
Are clamoring now for all the rageT
To give a dash of colorH
To their complexions which appearU
To be the hue they hold so dearU
Except a trifle dullerH
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That negligee blue stocking friendV
Who never cared her time to spendV
On mysteries of the toiletP
Now wears a sumptuous bouquetL
And shakes your hand a mile awayL
For fear that you will spoil itO
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Delightful widows dressed in blackW
Complain with modest sighs they lackW
That coveted expressionB
That sort of Indian Summer airX
Which relicts always ought to wearX
By general concessionB
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And so lugubrious folds of crapeY
Are crimped and twisted into shapeY
With graceful heads of yellowR
That give a winsome toning downB
To sombre hat and sable gownB
In autumn tintings mellowR
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Alas we only hate the weedN
And think that it must be indeedN
The ladies' last endeavorH
To match the gentlemen who flauntZ
That odious dried tobacco plantA2
At which they puff foreverH

Hattie Howard



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