A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFBF GHGH HIHI JKJKUnwillingly Miranda wakes | A |
Feels the sun with terror | B |
One unwilling step she takes | A |
Shuddering to the mirror | B |
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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 |
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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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