To The Portrait Of "a Lady" In The Athenaeum Gallery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MNONPQRQ STUTVWXW| Well Miss I wonder where you live | A |
| I wonder what's your name | B |
| I wonder how you came to be | C |
| In such a stylish frame | B |
| Perhaps you were a favorite child | D |
| Perhaps an only one | E |
| Perhaps your friends were not aware | F |
| You had your portrait done | E |
| - | |
| Yet you must be a harmless soul | G |
| I cannot think that Sin | H |
| Would care to throw his loaded dice | I |
| With such a stake to win | H |
| I cannot think you would provoke | J |
| The poet's wicked pen | K |
| Or make young women bite their lips | L |
| Or ruin fine young men | K |
| - | |
| Pray did you ever hear my love | M |
| Of boys that go about | N |
| Who for a very trifling sum | O |
| Will snip one's picture out | N |
| I'm not averse to red and white | P |
| But all things have their place | Q |
| I think a profile cut in black | R |
| Would suit your style of face | Q |
| - | |
| I love sweet features I will own | S |
| That I should like myself | T |
| To see my portrait on a wall | U |
| Or bust upon a shelf | T |
| But nature sometimes makes one up | V |
| Of such sad odds and ends | W |
| It really might be quite as well | X |
| Hushed up among one's friends | W |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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