Mesalliance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK LMLM NONO| With gentle manners winsome face | A |
| And forehead fit to wear a crown | B |
| How brilliant might have been her place | A |
| Had she not mated with a clown | B |
| - | |
| A Caliban of modern date | C |
| Ill dressed ill shapen ill at ease | D |
| With halting speech and awkward gait | C |
| And manners certain to displease | D |
| - | |
| What secret motive could have led | E |
| This charming girl her life to stain | F |
| By condescending thus to wed | E |
| A husband whom she must disdain | F |
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| Far worthier men had vainly sought | G |
| To win her for herself alone | H |
| What potent spell could Love have wrought | G |
| To draw her to a tactless drone | H |
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| A palace she might well have graced | I |
| And led its functions like a queen | J |
| Instead her life has run to waste | I |
| The wraith of what it might have been | K |
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| For boorishness hath brought its blight | L |
| Her rare accomplishments are marred | M |
| And every path with promise bright | L |
| By stupid tyranny is barred | M |
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| Yet still she bravely moves through life | N |
| Ignoring her pathetic fall | O |
| A loveless broken hearted wife | N |
| Alas the pity of it all | O |
John L. Stoddard
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