In Hospital - X - Staff-nurse: New Style Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBBBBCDDCDC| Blue eyed and bright of face but waning fast | A |
| Into the sere of virginal decay | B |
| I view her as she enters day by day | B |
| As a sweet sunset almost overpast | B |
| Kindly and calm patrician to the last | B |
| Superbly falls her gown of sober gray | B |
| And on her chignon's elegant array | B |
| The plainest cap is somehow touched with caste | B |
| She talks BEETHOVEN frowns disapprobation | C |
| At BALZAC'S name sighs it at 'poor GEORGE SAND'S' | D |
| Knows that she has exceeding pretty hands | D |
| Speaks Latin with a right accentuation | C |
| And gives at need as one who understands | D |
| Draught counsel diagnosis exhortation | C |
William Ernest Henley
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