Everyday Characters V - Portrait Of A Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme

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IN THE EXHIBITION OP THE ROYAL	A
ACADEMY	B
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What are you Lady nought is here	C
To tell us of your name or story	B
To claim the gazer's smile or fear	D
To dub you Whig or damn you Tory	B
It is beyond a poet's skill	E
To form the slightest notion whether	F
We e'er shall walk through one quadrille	E
Or look upon one moon together	F
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You're very pretty all the world	G
Are talking of your bright brow's splendour	F
And of your locks so softly curled	G
And of your hands so white and slender	F
Some think you 're blooming in Bengal	E
Some say you're blowing in the city	B
Some know you 're nobody at all	E
I only feel you're very pretty	B
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But bless my heart it 's very wrong	H
You 're making all our belles ferocious	I
Anne 'never saw a chin so long '	-
And Laura thinks your dress 'atrocious '	-
And Lady Jane who now and then	J
Is taken for the village steeple	E
Is sure you can't be four feet ten	J
And 'wonders at the taste of people '	-
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Soon pass the praises of a face	K
Swift fades the very best vermillion	L
Fame rides a most prodigious pace	K
Oblivion follows on the pillion	L
And all who in these sultry rooms	M
To day have stared and pushed and fainted	N
Will soon forget your pearls and plumes	M
As if they never had been painted	O
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You'll be forgotten as old debts	P
By persons who are used to borrow	F
Forgotten as the sun that sets	P
When shines a new one on the morrow	F
Forgotten like the luscious peach	Q
That blessed the schoolboy last September	F
Forgotten like a maiden speech	Q
Which all men praise but none remember	F
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Yet ere you sink into the stream	R
That whelms alike sage saint and martyr	F
And soldier's sword and minstrel's theme	R
And Canning's wit and Gatton's charter	F
Here of the fortunes of your youth	S
My fancy weaves her dim conjectures	T
Which have perhaps as much of truth	S
As passion's vows or Cobbett's lectures	T
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Was 't in the north or in the south	U
That summer breezes rocked your cradle	E
And had you in your baby mouth	U
A wooden or a silver ladle	E
And was your first unconscious sleep	V
By Brownie banned or blessed by Fairy	B
And did you wake to laugh or weep	V
And were you christened Maud or Mary	B
	-
And was your father called 'your grace'	T
And did he bet at Ascot races	T
And did he chat at commonplace	T
And did he fill a score of places	T
And did your lady mother's charms	T
Consist in picklings broilings bastings	T
Or did she prate about the arms	T
Her brave forefathers wore at Hastings	T
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Where were you finished tell me where	F
Was it at Chelsea or at Chiswick	W
Had you the ordinary share	F
Of books and backboard harp and physic	W
And did they bid you banish pride	X
And mind your Oriental tinting	W
And did you learn how Dido died	X
And who found out the art of printing	W
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And are you fond of lanes and brooks	T
A votary of the sylvan Muses	T
Or do you con the little books	T
Which Baron Brougham and Vaux diffuses	T
Or do you love to knit and sew	T
The fashionable world's Arachne	L
Or do you canter down the Row	T
Upon a very long tailed hackney	L
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And do you love your brother James	T
And do you pet his mares and setters	T
And have your friends romantic names	T
And do you write them long long letters	T
And are you since the world began	L
All women are a little spiteful	E
And don't you dote on Malibran	L
And don't you think Tom Moore delightful	E
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I see they've brought you flowers to day	Y
Delicious food for eyes and noses	T
But carelessly you turn away	Y
From all the pinks and all the roses	T
Say is that fond look sent in search	Z
Of one whose look as fondly answers	T
And is he fairest in the Church	Z
Or is he ain't he in the Lancers	T
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And is your love a motley page	A2
Of black and white half joy half sorrow	T
Are you to wait till you 're of age	A2
Or are you to be his to morrow	T
Or do they bid you in their scorn	L
Your pure and sinless flame to smother	F
Is he so very meanly born	L
Or are you married to another	F
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Whate'er you are at last adieu	B2
I think it is your bounden duty	L
To let the rhymes I coin for you	B2
Be prized by all who prize your beauty	L
From you I seek nor gold nor fame	C2
From you I fear no cruel strictures	T
I wish some girls that I could name	C2
Were half as silent as their pictures	T

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