The Made To Order Smile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB DDBB EEBB| When a woman looks up at you with a twist about her eyes | A |
| And her brows are half uplifted in a nicely feigned surprise | A |
| As you breathe some pretty sentence though she hates you all the while | B |
| She is very apt to stun you with a made to order smile | B |
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| It's a sublte combination of a sneer and a caress | C |
| With a dash of warmth thrown in to relieve its iciness | C |
| And she greets you when she meets you with that look as if a file | B |
| Had been used to fix and fashion out the made to order smile | B |
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| I confess that I'm eccentric and am not a woman's man | D |
| For they seem to be constructed on the bunko fakir plan | D |
| And it somehow sets me thinking that her heart is full of guile | B |
| When a woman looks up at me with a made to order smile | B |
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| Now all maidens young and aged hear the lesson I would teach | E |
| Ye who meet us in the ballroom ye who meet us at the beach | E |
| Pray consent to try and charm us by some other sort of wile | B |
| And relieve us from the burden of that made to order smile | B |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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