Molly Trefusis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBDB EBBB BBBB FBFB GBGB HBHB IBIB JBJB KBKB LBLB MBMB NBNB BBBB OBOB KBKB| Now the Graces are four and the Venuses two | A |
| And ten is the number of Muses | B |
| For a Muse and a Grace and a Venus are you | A |
| My dear little Molly Trefusis | B |
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| So he wrote the old bard of an old magazine | C |
| As a study it not without use is | B |
| If we wonder a moment who she may have been | D |
| This same little Molly Trefusis | B |
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| She was Cornish We know that at once by the Tre | E |
| Then of guessing it scarce an abuse is | B |
| If we say that where Bude bellows back to the sea | B |
| Was the birthplace of Molly Trefusis | B |
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| And she lived in the era of patches and bows | B |
| Not knowing what rouge or ceruse is | B |
| For they needed I trust but her natural rose | B |
| The lilies of Molly Trefusis | B |
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| And I somehow connect her I frankly admit | F |
| That the evidence hard to produce is | B |
| With BATH in its hey day of Fashion and Wit | F |
| This dangerous Molly Trefusis | B |
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| I fancy her radiant in ribbon and knot | G |
| How charming that old fashioned puce is | B |
| All blooming in laces fal lals and what not | G |
| At the PUMP ROOM Miss Molly Trefusis | B |
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| I fancy her reigning a Beauty a Toast | H |
| Where BLADUD'S medicinal cruse is | B |
| And we know that at least of one Bard it could boast | H |
| The Court of Queen Molly Trefusis | B |
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| He says she was VENUS I doubt it Beside | I |
| Your rhymer so hopelessly loose is | B |
| His little could scarce be to Venus applied | I |
| If fitly to Molly Trefusis | B |
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| No no It was HEBE he had in his mind | J |
| And fresh as the handmaid of Zeus is | B |
| And rosy and rounded and dimpled you'll find | J |
| Was certainly Molly Trefusis | B |
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| Then he calls her a MUSE To the charge I reply | K |
| That we all of us know what a Muse is | B |
| It is something too awful too acid too dry | K |
| For sunny eyed Molly Trefusis | B |
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| But a GRACE There I grant he was probably right | L |
| The rest but a verse making ruse is | B |
| It was all that was graceful intangible light | L |
| The beauty of Molly Trefusis | B |
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| Was she wooed Who can hesitate much about that | M |
| Assuredly more than obtuse is | B |
| For how could the poet have written so pat | M |
| My dear little Molly Trefusis | B |
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| And was wed That I think we must plainly infer | N |
| Since of suitors the common excuse is | B |
| To take to them Wives So it happened to her | N |
| Of course little Molly Trefusis | B |
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| To the Bard 'Tis unlikely Apollo you see | B |
| In practical matters a goose is | B |
| 'Twas a knight of the shire and a hunting J P | B |
| Who carried off Molly Trefusis | B |
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| And you'll find I conclude in the Gentleman's Mag | O |
| At the end where the pick of the news is | B |
| On the blank at 'the Bath ' to Sir Hilary Bragg | O |
| With a Fortune MISS MOLLY TREFUSIS | B |
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| Thereupon But no farther the student may pry | K |
| Love's temple is dark as Eleusis | B |
| So here at the threshold we part you and I | K |
| From dear little Molly Trefusis | B |
Henry Austin Dobson
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