Cinderella Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDE FGHDIF FIJKLD MNOIPI DDIDDI IDQDNN| Her imaginary playmate was a grown up | A |
| In sea coal satin The flame blue glances | B |
| The wings gauzy as the membrane that the ashes | C |
| Draw over an old ember as the mother | D |
| In a jug of cider were a comfort to her | D |
| They sat by the fire and told each other stories | E |
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| What men want said the godmother softly | F |
| How she went on it is hard for a man to say | G |
| Their eyes on their Father were monumental marble | H |
| Then they smiled like two old women bussed each other | D |
| Said Gossip gossip and lapped in each other's looks | I |
| Mirror for Mirror drank a cup of tea | F |
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| Of cambric tea But there is a reality | F |
| Under the good silk of the good sisters' | I |
| Good ball gowns She knew Hard breasted naked eyed | J |
| She pushed her silk feet into glass and rose within | K |
| A gown of imaginary gauze The shy prince drank | L |
| A toast to her in champagne from her slipper | D |
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| And breathed Bewitching Breathed I am bewitched | M |
| She said to her godmother Men | N |
| And later looking down to see her flesh | O |
| Look back up from under lace the ashy gauze | I |
| And pulsing marble of a bridal veil | P |
| She wished it all a widow's coal black weeds | I |
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| A sullen wife and a reluctant mother | D |
| She sat all day in silence by the fire | D |
| Better later to stare past her sons' sons | I |
| Her daughters' daughter and tell stories to the fire | D |
| But best dead damned to rock forever | D |
| Beside Hell's fireside to see within the flames | I |
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| The Heaven to whosee gold gauzed door there comes | I |
| A little dark old woman the God's Mother | D |
| And cries Come in come in My son's out now | Q |
| Out now will be back soon may be back never | D |
| Who knows eh We know what they are men men | N |
| But come come in till then Come in till then | N |
Randall Jarrell
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