A Reply To A Young Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DB EEEEFF GGDDDD| I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done | A |
| Than to be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching | B |
| Merchant of Venice | C |
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| Do as I tell you and not as I do | D |
| Old Saying | B |
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| You say a moral sign post I | E |
| Point out the road towards the sky | E |
| And then with glance so very shy | E |
| You archly ask me lady why | E |
| I hesitate myself to go | F |
| In the direction which I show | F |
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| To answer is an easy task | G |
| If you allow me but to ask | G |
| One little question sweet of you | D |
| 'Tis this should sign posts travel too | D |
| What would bewildered pilgrims do | D |
| Celestial pilgrims such as you | D |
James Barron Hope
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