The Prostitute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHH IHJ KLM NOH PQR SHD NDT| Woman of weeping eye ah for thy wretched lot | A |
| Putting on smiles to lure the lewd passenger | B |
| Smiling while anguish gnaws at thy heavy heart | C |
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| Sad is thy chance thou daughter of misery | D |
| Vice and disease are wearing thee fast away | E |
| While the unfeeling ones sport with thy sufferings | F |
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| Destined to pamper the vicious one's appetite | G |
| Spurned by the beings who lured thee from innocence | H |
| Sinking unnoticed in sorrow and indigence | H |
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| Thou hast no friends for they with thy virtue fled | I |
| Thou art an outcast from house and from happiness | H |
| Wandering alone on the wide world's unfeeling stage | J |
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| Daughter of misery sad is thy prospect here | K |
| Thou hast no friend to soothe down the bed of death | L |
| None after thee inquires with solicitude | M |
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| Famine and fell disease shortly will wear thee down | N |
| Yet thou hast still to brave often the winter's wind | O |
| Loathsome to those thou wouldst court with thine hollow eyes | H |
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| Soon thou wilt sink into death's silent slumbering | P |
| And not a tear shall fall on thy early grave | Q |
| Nor shall a single stone tell where thy bones are laid | R |
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| Once wert thou happy thou wert once innocent | S |
| But the seducer beguiled thee in artlessness | H |
| Then he abandoned thee unto thine infamy | D |
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| Now he perhaps is reclined on a bed of down | N |
| But if a wretch like him sleeps in security | D |
| God of the red right arm where is thy thunder bolt | T |
Henry Kirk White
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