Female Fashions For 1799 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGG GIGI GDGD GIGI GJGJ GIGI| A form as any taper fine | A |
| A head like half pint bason | B |
| Where golden cords and bands entwine | A |
| As rich as fleece of JASON | B |
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| A pair of shoulders strong and wide | C |
| Like country clown enlisting | D |
| Bare arms long dangling by the side | C |
| And shoes of ragged listing | D |
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| Cravats like towels thick and broad | E |
| Long tippets made of bear skin | F |
| Muffs that a RUSSIAN might applaud | E |
| And rouge to spoil a fair skin | F |
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| Long petticoats to hide the feet | G |
| Silk hose with clocks of scarlet | H |
| A load of perfume sick'ning sweet | G |
| Bought of PARISIAN VARLET | G |
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| A bush of hair the brow to shade | G |
| Sometimes the eyes to cover | I |
| A necklace that might be display'd | G |
| By OTAHEITEAN lover | I |
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| A bowl of straw to deck the head | G |
| Like porringer unmeaning | D |
| A bunch of POPPIES flaming red | G |
| With motly ribands streaming | D |
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| Bare ears on either side the head | G |
| Like wood wild savage SATYR | I |
| Tinted with deep vermilion red | G |
| To shame the blush of nature | I |
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| Red elbows gauzy gloves that add | G |
| An icy cov'ring merely | J |
| A wadded coat the shape to pad | G |
| Like Dutch women or nearly | J |
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| Such is CAPRICE but lovely kind | G |
| Oh let each mental feature | I |
| Proclaim the labour of the mind | G |
| And leave your charms to NATURE | I |
Mary Darby Robinson
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