A Discouraging Model Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBB CCDDD EEFFF GGBBB| Just the airiest fairiest slip of a thing | A |
| With a Gainsborough hat like a butterfly's wing | A |
| Tilted up at one side with the jauntiest air | B |
| And a knot of red roses sown in under there | B |
| Where the shadows are lost in her hair | B |
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| Then a cameo face carven in on a ground | C |
| Of that shadowy hair where the roses are wound | C |
| And the gleam of a smile O as fair and as faint | D |
| And as sweet as the master of old used to paint | D |
| Round the lips of their favorite saint | D |
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| And that lace at her throat and fluttering hands | E |
| Snowing there with a grace that no art understands | E |
| The flakes of their touches first fluttering at | F |
| The bow then the roses the hair and then that | F |
| Little tilt of the Gainsborough hat | F |
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| Ah what artist on earth with a model like this | G |
| Holding not on his palette the tint of a kiss | G |
| Nor a pigment to hint of the hue of her hair | B |
| Nor the gold of her smile O what artist could dare | B |
| To expect a result half so fair | B |
James Whitcomb Riley
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