The Proof - The Queen Of Fashion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCDEFEF AGAGHAHA| The point I advance if it need confirmation | A |
| I'll prove by a witness that few will dispute | B |
| A pink of perfection and truth in the naion | A |
| Where fashion and folly are all of a suit | B |
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| 'Tis Merdle the banker or rather his wife | C |
| Whose fashion religion or music or dress | D |
| Is followed consulted by many through life | C |
| As pilots are followed by ships in distress | D |
| For money's a pilot a master a king | E |
| Which men follow blindly through quicksands and shoals | F |
| Where pilots their ships in a moment might fling | E |
| To destruction the vessel and cargo and souls | F |
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| 'Twas money made Kitty of fashion the queen | A |
| And fortune oft lends queens the scepter | G |
| So fortune and fashion with this one we've seen | A |
| Her money and fortune in fashion has kept her | G |
| While slaves of the queen with her hoops rules the day | H |
| Expanding their utmost extent of expansion | A |
| And mandates of fashion most freely obey | H |
| And would if it bid all their souls to extinction | A |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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