A Pretty Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BACB A DEED A FGGF HEEH DIID DEED J J JKKJ H LMMN H MM DJJD OO PP KK K K KK KK| I | A |
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| That fawn skin dappled hair of hers | B |
| And the blue eye | A |
| Dear and dewy | C |
| And that infantine fresh air of hers | B |
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| II | A |
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| To think men cannot take you Sweet | D |
| And enfold you | E |
| Ay and hold you | E |
| And so keep you what they make you Sweet | D |
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| III | A |
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| You like us for a glance you know | F |
| For a word's sake | G |
| Or a sword's sake | G |
| All's the same whate'er the chance you know | F |
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| IV | - |
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| And in turn we make you ours we say | H |
| You and youth too | E |
| Eyes and mouth too | E |
| All the face composed of flowers we say | H |
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| V | - |
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| All's our own to make the most of Sweet | D |
| Sing and say for | I |
| Watch and pray for | I |
| Keep a secret or go boast of Sweet | D |
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| VI | - |
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| But for loving why you would not Sweet | D |
| Though we prayed you | E |
| Paid you brayed you | E |
| In a mortar for you could not Sweet | D |
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| VII | - |
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| So we leave the sweet face fondly there | J |
| Be its beauty | - |
| Its sole duty | - |
| Let all hope of grace beyond lie there | J |
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| VIII | - |
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| And while the face lies quiet there | J |
| Who shall wonder | K |
| That I ponder | K |
| A conclusion I will try it there | J |
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| IX | H |
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| As why must one for the love forgone | L |
| Scout mere liking | M |
| Thunder striking | M |
| Earth the heaven we looked above for gone | N |
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| X | H |
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| Why with beauty needs there money be | - |
| Love with liking | M |
| Crush the fly king | M |
| In his gauze because no honey bee | - |
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| XI | - |
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| May not liking be so simple sweet | D |
| If love grew there | J |
| 'Twould undo there | J |
| All that breaks the cheek to dimples sweet | D |
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| XII | - |
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| Is the creature too imperfect say | - |
| Would you mend it | O |
| And so end it | O |
| Since not all addition perfects aye | - |
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| XIII | - |
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| Or is it of its kind perhaps | - |
| Just perfection | P |
| Whence rejection | P |
| Of a grace not to its mind perhaps | - |
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| XIV | - |
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| Shall we burn up tread that face at once | - |
| Into tinder | K |
| And so hinder | K |
| Sparks from kindling all the place at once | - |
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| XV | - |
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| Or else kiss away one's soul on her | K |
| Your love fancies | - |
| A sick man sees | - |
| Truer when his hot eyes roll on her | K |
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| XVI | - |
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| Thus the craftsman thinks to grace the rose | - |
| Plucks a mould flower | K |
| For his gold flower | K |
| Uses fine things that efface the rose | - |
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| XVII | - |
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| Rosy rubies make its cup more rose | - |
| Precious metals | - |
| Ape the petals | - |
| Last some old king locks it up morose | - |
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| XVIII | - |
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| Then how grace a rose I know a way | - |
| Leave it rather | K |
| Must you gather | K |
| Smell kiss wear it at last throw away | - |
Robert Browning
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