Phyllis's Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFG HIHI| How old may Phyllis be you ask | A |
| Whose beauty thus all hearts engages | B |
| To answer is no easy task | A |
| For she has really two ages | C |
| - | |
| Stiff in brocard and pinch'd in stays | D |
| Her patches paint and jewels on | E |
| All day let envy view her face | F |
| And Phyllis is but twenty one | G |
| - | |
| Paint patches jewels laid aside | H |
| At night astronomers agree | I |
| The evening has the day belied | H |
| And Phyllis is some forty three | I |
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