London Types - Xiii. Barmaid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFGFGHHCICIIJ IJ K| Though if you ask her name she says ELISE | A |
| Being plain ELIZABETH e'en let it pass | B |
| And own that if her aspirates take their ease | C |
| She ever makes a point in washing glass | B |
| Handling the engine turning taps for tots | D |
| And countering change and scorning what men say | E |
| Of posing as a dove among the pots | D |
| Nor often gives her dignity away | E |
| Her head's a work of art and if her eyes | F |
| Be tired and ignorant she has a waist | G |
| Cheaply the Mode she shadows and she tries | F |
| From penny novels to amend her taste | G |
| And having mopped the zinc for certain years | H |
| And faced the gas she fades and disappears | H |
| The Artist muses at his ease | C |
| Contented that his work is done | I |
| And smiling smiling as he sees | C |
| His crowd collecting one by one | I |
| Alas his travail's but begun | I |
| None none can keep the years in line | J |
| And what to Ninety Eight is fun | I |
| May raise the gorge of Ninety Nine | J |
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| MUSWELL HILL | K |
William Ernest Henley
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