The Valiant Girls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEE FGFGFGHH ICICJCJCHH KLKLMMNONOPQFFRR FSFSTSTUUOUOFCO| The valiant girls of them I sing | A |
| Who daily to their business go | B |
| Happy as larks and fresh as spring | A |
| They are the bravest things I know | B |
| At eight from out my lazy tower | C |
| I watch the snow and shake my head | D |
| But yonder petticoated flower | C |
| Braves it alone with aery tread | D |
| Nor wind nor rain nor ice fanged storm | E |
| Frightens that valiant little form | E |
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| Strange she that sweetens all the air | F |
| The New York sister of the rose | G |
| To a grim office should repair | F |
| With picture hat and silken hose | G |
| And strange it is to see her there | F |
| With powder on her little nose | G |
| And yet how business like is she | H |
| With pad and pencil on her knee | H |
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| Changed are the times no stranger sign | I |
| If you but think the matter over | C |
| Than she the delicate the divine | I |
| Whose lot seemed only love and lover | C |
| Should to Life's rough and muddy wheel | J |
| So gravely set her pretty shoulder | C |
| What would her dead grandmother feel | J |
| If someone woke her up and told her | C |
| Yet bate not through her dreary duty | H |
| One jot of womanhood or beauty | H |
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| A woman still yes still a girl | K |
| She changes yet she does not change | L |
| A moon lit creature made of pearl | K |
| And filled with music sad and strange | L |
| The while she takes your gruff dictation | M |
| Who knows her secret meditation | M |
| Most skilled of all our new machines | N |
| She sits there at the telephone | O |
| Prettier far than fabled queens | N |
| Yea Greece herself has never known | O |
| Nor Phidias wrought nor Homer sung | P |
| Girls fairer than the girls that throng | Q |
| So serious and so debonair | F |
| At morn and eve the Subway stair | F |
| A bright processional of faces | R |
| So valiant for all their laces | R |
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| The girls that work that take their share | F |
| In Life's grim battle hard and rough | S |
| Wearing their crowns of silken hair | F |
| Armed only with a powder puff | S |
| These not the women of old time | T |
| Though doubtless they were fair enough | S |
| Shall be the theme for modern rhyme | T |
| Nay never shall our hearts forget | U |
| The flower face of Juliet | U |
| Or Helen on her golden throne | O |
| But there shall come a Homer yet | U |
| A Shakespeare still to fame unknown | O |
| To sing among the stars up there | F |
| Fair Helen the stenographer | C |
| Sweet Juliet of the telephone | O |
Richard Le Gallienne
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