Mrs. Merdle Doubts Paradise's Uneating Pleasure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCDEFEGCBHBCB| Though Houris are handsome though lovely the place | A |
| More lovely perhaps than our own country seat | B |
| I never could see in the light of free grace | A |
| What pleasure they have there with nothing to eat | B |
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| With nothing to wear if the climate is suiting | C |
| We might get along I am sure pretty well | D |
| No washing and starching and crimping and fluting | C |
| No muslin and laces and trouble of dressing they tell | D |
| E'er troubles the women or bothers the men | E |
| Who soon grow accustomed as people do here | F |
| To fashions prevailing and things that they ken | E |
| To dresses fore shortened where bosoms appear | G |
| To bonnets that show but a rose in the wearing | C |
| To dresses that sweep like a besom the street | B |
| To dresses so gauzy the hoops through are seen | H |
| To shoes quite as gauzy to cover the feet | B |
| But watch how a man here goes raving and swearing | C |
| At wife and all hands if they've nothing to eat | B |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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