Staff Nurse:old Style Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEFGEFThe 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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