The Modern Saint Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEF| Her time with equal prudence Silvia shares | A |
| First writes her billet doux then says her prayers | A |
| Her mass and toilette vespers and the play | B |
| Thus God and Ashtaroth divide the day | B |
| Constant she keeps her Ember week and Lent | C |
| At Easter calls all Israel to her tent | C |
| Loose without bawd and pious without zeal | D |
| She still repeats the sins she would conceal | D |
| Envy herself from Silvia's life must grant | E |
| An artful woman makes a modern saint | F |
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