In Hospital - Viii - Staff-nurse: Old Style Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEFGEF| The greater masters of the commonplace | A |
| REMBRANDT and good SIR WALTER only these | B |
| Could paint her all to you experienced ease | B |
| And antique liveliness and ponderous grace | A |
| The sweet old roses of her sunken face | A |
| The depth and malice of her sly grey eyes | C |
| The broad Scots tongue that flatters scolds defies | C |
| The thick Scots wit that fells you like a mace | A |
| These thirty years has she been nursing here | D |
| Some of them under SYME her hero still | E |
| Much is she worth and even more is made of her | F |
| Patients and students hold her very dear | G |
| The doctors love her tease her use her skill | E |
| They say 'The Chief' himself is half afraid of her | F |
William Ernest Henley
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