A Slice Of Wedding Cake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLMHK| Why have such scores of lovely gifted girls | A |
| Married impossible men | B |
| Simple self sacrifice may be ruled out | C |
| And missionary endeavour nine times out of ten | B |
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| Repeat 'impossible men' not merely rustic | D |
| Foul tempered or depraved | E |
| Dramatic foils chosen to show the world | F |
| How well women behave and always have behaved | E |
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| Impossible men idle illiterate | G |
| Self pitying dirty sly | H |
| For whose appearance even in City parks | I |
| Excuses must be made to casual passers by | H |
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| Has God's supply of tolerable husbands | J |
| Fallen in fact so low | K |
| Or do I always over value woman | L |
| At the expense of man | M |
| Do I | H |
| It might be so | K |
Robert Graves
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