A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFBF GHGH HIHI JKJK| Unwillingly Miranda wakes | A |
| Feels the sun with terror | B |
| One unwilling step she takes | A |
| Shuddering to the mirror | B |
| - | |
| Miranda in Miranda's sight | C |
| Is old and gray and dirty | D |
| Twenty nine she was last night | C |
| This morning she is thirty | D |
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| Shining like the morning star | E |
| Like the twilight shining | F |
| Haunted by a calendar | B |
| Miranda is a pining | F |
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| Silly girl silver girl | G |
| Draw the mirror toward you | H |
| Time who makes the years to whirl | G |
| Adorned as he adored you | H |
| - | |
| Time is timelessness for you | H |
| Calendars for the human | I |
| What's a year or thirty to | H |
| Loveliness made woman | I |
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| Oh Night will not see thirty again | J |
| Yet soft her wing Miranda | K |
| Pick up your glass and tell me then | J |
| How old is Spring Miranda | K |
Ogden Nash
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