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She Didn T Ever Have To Stop To Think

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Emmeline’s poem is both traditional and contemporary; it follows a particular rhyme scheme and metrical pattern, yet uses simple language and is brief in comparison to other traditional works. The poem follows an ABAB rhyme scheme and a metrical pattern of 7-6-7-6 syllables. The purpose of the simple patterns is to criticize poets whose main purpose is to rhyme and give no thought to their writing. Twain is satirizing overly sentimental romantic poetry, which was common in his time. Buck describes Emmeline’s poetry by saying ‘’She didn’t ever have to stop to think. She would slap down a line, and if she couldn’t find anything to rhyme with it would just scratch it out and slap down another one, and go ahead. She warn’t particular; she could
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