How A Little Girl Danced Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A BCBCBC BCBCDC ACDCEC ECCCFC GCBCBC| Dedicated to Lucy Bates | A |
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| Being a reminiscence of certain private theatricals | A |
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| Oh cabaret dancer I know a dancer | B |
| Whose eyes have not looked on the feasts that are vain | C |
| I know a dancer I know a dancer | B |
| Whose soul has no bond with the beasts of the plain | C |
| Judith the dancer Judith the dancer | B |
| With foot like the snow and with step like the rain | C |
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| Oh thrice painted dancer vaudeville dancer | B |
| Sad in your spangles with soul all astrain | C |
| I know a dancer I know a dancer | B |
| Whose laughter and weeping are spiritual gain | C |
| A pure hearted high hearted maiden evangel | D |
| With strength the dark cynical earth to disdain | C |
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| Flowers of bright Broadway you of the chorus | A |
| Who sing in the hope of forgetting your pain | C |
| I turn to a sister of Sainted Cecilia | D |
| A white bird escaping the earth's tangled skein | C |
| The music of God is her innermost brooding | E |
| The whispering angels her footsteps sustain | C |
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| Oh proud Russian dancer praise for your dancing | E |
| No clean human passion my rhyme would arraign | C |
| You dance for Apollo with noble devotion | C |
| A high cleansing revel to make the heart sane | C |
| But Judith the dancer prays to a spirit | F |
| More white than Apollo and all of his train | C |
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| I know a dancer who finds the true Godhead | G |
| Who bends o'er a brazier in Heaven's clear plain | C |
| I know a dancer I know a dancer | B |
| Who lifts us toward peace from this earth that is vain | C |
| Judith the dancer Judith the dancer | B |
| With foot like the snow and with step like the rain | C |
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