To Mary Housemaid, On Valentine's Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FDFD GHGH IJIK| Mary you know I've no love nonsense | A |
| And though I pen on such a day | B |
| I don't mean flirting on my conscience | C |
| Or writing in the courting way | B |
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| Though Beauty hasn't formed your feature | D |
| It saves you p'rhaps from being vain | E |
| And many a poor unhappy creature | D |
| May wish that she was half as plain | E |
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| Your virtues would not rise an inch | F |
| Although your shape was two foot taller | D |
| And wisely you let others pinch | F |
| Great waists and feet to make them smaller | D |
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| You never try to spare your hands | G |
| From getting red by household duty | H |
| But doing all that it commands | G |
| Their coarseness is a moral beauty | H |
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| Let Susan flourish her fair arms | I |
| And at your old legs sneer and scoff | J |
| But let her laugh for you have charms | I |
| That nobody knows nothing of | K |
Thomas Hood
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