To Mary Pickford - Moving-picture Actress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCB DEEDFCCF GHHGIJJIKLLK CGGC MHHM| On hearing she was leaving the moving pictures for the stage | A |
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| Mary Pickford doll divine | B |
| Year by year and every day | C |
| At the moving picture play | C |
| You have been my valentine | B |
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| Once a free limbed page in hose | D |
| Baby Rosalind in flower | E |
| Cloakless shrinking in that hour | E |
| How our reverent passion rose | D |
| How our fine desire you won | F |
| Kitchen wench another day | C |
| Shapeless wooden every way | C |
| Next a fairy from the sun | F |
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| Once you walked a grown up strand | G |
| Fish wife siren full of lure | H |
| Snaring with devices sure | H |
| Lads who murdered on the sand | G |
| But on most days just a child | I |
| Dimpled as no grown folk are | J |
| Cold of kiss as some north star | J |
| Violet from the valleys wild | I |
| Snared as innocence must be | K |
| Fleeing prisoned chained half dead | L |
| At the end of tortures dread | L |
| Roaring cowboys set you free | K |
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| Fly O song to her to day | C |
| Like a cowboy cross the land | G |
| Snatch her from Belasco's hand | G |
| And that prison called Broadway | C |
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| All the village swains await | M |
| One dear lily girl demure | H |
| Saucy dancing cold and pure | H |
| Elf who must return in state | M |
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