The High-toned Old Christian Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFEHEIJKLMNFEE EE| Poetry is the supreme fiction madame | A |
| Take the moral law and make a nave of it | B |
| And from the nave build haunted heaven Thus | C |
| The conscience is converted into palms | D |
| Like windy citherns hankering for hymns | E |
| We agree in principle That's clear But take | F |
| The opposing law and make a peristyle | G |
| And from the peristyle project a masque | F |
| Beyond the planets Thus our bawdiness | E |
| Unpurged by epitaph indulged at last | H |
| Is equally converted into palms | E |
| Squiggling like saxophones And palm for palm | I |
| Madame we are where we began Allow | J |
| Therefore that in the planetary scene | K |
| Your disaffected flagellants well stuffed | L |
| Smacking their muzzy bellies in parade | M |
| Proud of such novelties of the sublime | N |
| Such tink and tank and tunk a tunk tunk | F |
| May merely may madame whip from themselves | E |
| A jovial hullabaloo among the spheres | E |
| This will make widows wince But fictive things | E |
| Wink as they will Wink most when widows wince | E |
Wallace Stevens
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