Mrs. Merdle Discourseth Of Things Earthly. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDBEBFGHGHIJJIKL KL| No matter how costly or flimsy her dresses | A |
| The angel you honor with your kind attentions | B |
| No matter how foolish her wardrobe inventions | B |
| You love her or say so from slipper to tresses | C |
| But presto you call her the greatest of sinners | D |
| Though smiling she treats you to badly cooked dinners | D |
| Which proves where the seat is of men's best affections | B |
| With which 'pon their honor they extol us as wives | E |
| And treat us at dinner with sagest reflections | B |
| Of beauty and duty we owe all our lives | F |
| To you noble lords of this mundane creation | G |
| Which judging from some things they tell us | H |
| Was made for the creatures of this trading nation | G |
| Who make it a business to buy us and sell us | H |
| Like 'Erie ' or 'Central ' or other such stocks | I |
| With care when they bid for a very 'Miss Nancy ' | J |
| That she's of a stock that the brokers call 'fancy ' | J |
| Or else has a pocket 'chuck full of the rocks' | I |
| The rocks that are wrecking each day of their sailing | K |
| More fortunes than ever in ocean were swallowed | L |
| Where 'ventures' of marriage their victims impaling | K |
| With mammon and mis'ry together have wallowed | L |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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