Now Bare To The Beholder's Eye Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFAABBGGHH CCIJKKLLMM| NOW bare to the beholder's eye | A |
| Your late denuded bindings lie | A |
| Subsiding slowly where they fell | B |
| A disinvested citadel | B |
| The obdurate corset Cupid's foe | C |
| The Dutchman's breeches frilled below | C |
| Those that the lover notes to note | D |
| And white and crackling petticoat | D |
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| From these that on the ground repose | E |
| Their lady lately re arose | E |
| And laying by the lady's name | F |
| A living woman re became | F |
| Of her that from the public eye | A |
| They do enclose and fortify | A |
| Now lying scattered as they fell | B |
| An indiscreeter tale they tell | B |
| Of that more soft and secret her | G |
| Whose daylong fortresses they were | G |
| By fading warmth by lingering print | H |
| These now discarded scabbards hint | H |
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| A twofold change the ladies know | C |
| First in the morn the bugles blow | C |
| And they with floral hues and scents | I |
| Man their beribboned battlements | J |
| But let the stars appear and they | K |
| Shed inhumanities away | K |
| And from the changeling fashion see | L |
| Through comic and through sweet degree | L |
| In nature's toilet unsurpassed | M |
| Forth leaps the laughing girl at last | M |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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