Her Right Name Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHIIJJFF FFKLMNFF| As Nancy at her toilette sat | A |
| Admiring this and blaming that | A |
| Tell me she said but tell me true | B |
| The nymph who could your heart subdue | B |
| What sort of charms does she possess | C |
| Absolve me fair one I'll confess | C |
| With pleasure I replied Her hair | D |
| In ringlets rather dark than fair | D |
| Does down her ivory bosom roll | E |
| And hiding half adorns the whole | E |
| In her high forehead's fair half round | F |
| Love sits in open triumph crown'd | F |
| He in the dimple of her chin | G |
| In private state by friends is seen | H |
| Her eyes are neither black nor grey | I |
| Nor fierce nor feeble is their ray | I |
| Their dubious lustre seems to show | J |
| Something that speaks nor yes nor no | J |
| Her lips no living bard I weet | F |
| May say how red how round how sweet | F |
| Old Homer only could indite | F |
| Their vagrant grace and soft delight | F |
| They stand recorded in his book | K |
| When Helen smiled and Hebe spoke | L |
| The gypsy turning to her glass | M |
| Too plainly show'd she knew the face | N |
| And which am I most like she said | F |
| Your Cloe or your Nut brown Maid | F |
Matthew Prior
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