The Coquette Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGHGIJKJ LMLMNONO PQRSTJTJ UVUVGWGW XYXYZA2B2A2 UBUBRC2RC2 PD2E2D2F2G2F2H2| How can I be to blame | A |
| Is it my fault I am fair | B |
| I did not fashion my features | C |
| Or brush the gold in my hair | B |
| Because my eyes are so blue and bright | D |
| Must I never look up from the ground | E |
| But put out with my eyelids' snow their light | D |
| Lest some foolish heart they should wound | E |
| - | |
| How can I be in fault | F |
| I am sure where hearts are so few | G |
| It is difficult to discern | H |
| The diamonds of paste from the true | G |
| I thought him like all the rest | I |
| Skilful in playing his part | J |
| As careful at cards or at chess | K |
| As winning a woman's heart | J |
| - | |
| I am sure it is nothing wrong | L |
| Nothing to think of and yet | M |
| I know I lured him with glance and song | L |
| Into my shining net | M |
| Provokingly cold at first he seemed | N |
| Like crystal to smiles and sighs | O |
| But at last he felt the magic that gleamed | N |
| In my dreamy violet eyes | O |
| - | |
| And I led him on and on | P |
| Farther in truth than I strove | Q |
| For he frightened me with the earnestness | R |
| And violence of his love | S |
| These calm eyed men deceive | T |
| Had I known the man had a heart | J |
| I would have paused I would I believe | T |
| Have acted a different part | J |
| - | |
| In his royal indignation | U |
| He uttered some wholesome truth | V |
| He almost roused the emotion | U |
| That died in my innocent youth | V |
| Emotion that lived when life was new | G |
| Ere that man my pathway crossed | W |
| Who played me a game untrue | G |
| When I staked all my love and lost | W |
| - | |
| Oh for a saintly beauty | X |
| What efforts my soul did make | Y |
| I thought all goodness and purity | X |
| Were possible for his sake | Y |
| The world seemed born anew my life | Z |
| Such holy meaning wore | A2 |
| I fancy so fair and fond a dream | B2 |
| Never fell into ruins before | A2 |
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| He toyed with my fresh affection | U |
| As he breathed the country air | B |
| To refresh him after a season | U |
| Of fashion and falsehood and glare | B |
| Had he not slain my tenderness | R |
| Had my life been more sweet | C2 |
| I might have known nobler happiness | R |
| Than to humble men to my feet | C2 |
| - | |
| But now I love to lure them on | P |
| To make them slaves to my gaze | D2 |
| Like serfs to a conqueror's chariot | E2 |
| Like moths to a candle blaze | D2 |
| I melt most royally time the pearl | F2 |
| And quaff the cup like a queen | G2 |
| And forget in the dizzy tumult and whirl | F2 |
| The woman I might have been | H2 |
Marietta Holley
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