The Contrast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHIHI JKJKLALA| Fat lady in your four wheeled chair | A |
| Dolled up to beat the band | B |
| At me you arrogantly stare | A |
| With gold lorgnette in hand | B |
| Oh how you differ from the dame | C |
| So shabby gaunt and grey | D |
| With legs rheumatically lame | C |
| Who steers you on your way | D |
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| Nay jewelled lady look not back | E |
| Lest you should be disturbed | F |
| To see the skinny hag in black | E |
| Who boosts you up the curb | G |
| Of course I know you get her cheap | H |
| Since she's a lady too | I |
| And bite to eat and bed to sleep | H |
| Maybe are all her due | I |
| - | |
| Alas for those who give us aid | J |
| Yet need more help than we | K |
| And though she thinks the wages paid | J |
| Are almost charity | K |
| I'd love to see that lady fat | L |
| Lug round that hefty chair | A |
| While with lorgnette and feathered hat | L |
| Her handmaid lounges there | A |
Robert William Service
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