Lady Geraldine's Hardship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJ KLLMMNOP| E B Browning | A |
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| I turned Heaven knows we women turn too much | B |
| To broken reeds mistaken so for pine | C |
| That shame forbids confession a handle I turned | D |
| The wrong one said the agent afterwards | E |
| And so flung clean across your English street | F |
| Through the shrill tinkling glass of the shop front paused | G |
| Artemis mazed 'mid gauds to catch a man | H |
| And piteous baby caps and christening gowns | I |
| The worse for being worn on the radiator | J |
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| My cousin Romney judged me from the bench | K |
| Propounding one sleek forty shillinged law | L |
| That takes no count of the Woman's oversoul | L |
| I should have entered purred he by the door | M |
| The man's retort the open obvious door | M |
| And since I chose not he not he could change | N |
| The man's rule not the Woman's for the case | O |
| Ten pounds or seven days Just that I paid | P |
Rudyard Kipling
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