Vanity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDEFGHG AIAIAJAJ| My tangoing seemed to delight her | A |
| With me it was love at first sight | B |
| I mentioned That I was a writer | A |
| She asked me What is it you write | B |
| Oh only best sellers I told her | A |
| Their titles She shook her blonde head | C |
| The atmosphere seemed to grow colder | A |
| Not one of my books had she read | C |
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| Oh she was a beauty ensnaring | D |
| And I was an author of note | E |
| But little I saw she'd be caring | D |
| If never a novel I wrote | E |
| Alas for the caprice of Cupid | F |
| Alack for the phantom of Fame | G |
| I thought her just homely and stupid | H |
| She didn't know even my name | G |
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| I saw her a score of years after | A |
| She gushed as I took off my hat | I |
| But inwardly loud was my laughter | A |
| For she was enormously fat | I |
| Thank heaven I'd not made that error | A |
| I saw Love drive off in a hearse | J |
| But I too retreated in terror | A |
| She started to quote me my verse | J |
Robert Service
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