A Game Of Fives Poem by Lewis Carroll
A Game Of Fives
Five little girls, of Five, Four, Three, Two, One:
Rolling on the hearthrug, full of tricks and fun.
Five rosy girls, in years from Ten to Six:
Sitting down to lessons - no more time for tricks.
Five growing girls, from Fifteen to Eleven:
Music, Drawing, Languages, and food enough for seven!
Five winsome girls, from Twenty to Sixteen:
Each young man that calls, I say "Now tell me which you MEAN!"
Five dashing girls, the youngest Twenty-one:
But, if nobody proposes, what is there to be done?
Five showy girls - but Thirty is an age
When girls may be ENGAGING, but they somehow don't ENGAGE.
Five dressy girls, of Thirty-one or more:
So gracious to the shy young men they snubbed so much before!
Five PASSE girls - Their age? Well, never mind!
We jog along together, like the rest of human kind:
But the quondam "careless bachelor" begins to think he knows
The answer to that ancient problem "how the money goes"!
Some families of women of that era equate husband material based on how wealthy the man or his family was. With such standards, the young women may find it hard to marry if they want t to marry for love and not for money.
These are five girls who will never have sex; usual in those days in middle class houses. Women were marriage fodder or on the shelf all their lives.
This is a very artistic poem of Lewis Carroll, brilliantly weaved into a dashing poem, highest Congratulations chosen by PoemHunter and Team as The Classic Poem Of The Day! TOP Marks 5 Stars and TFS
I loved the way this poem rhymed and at the same time held so much meaning!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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12/8/2024 4:46:01 AM # 1.0.0
The Age content is made very wisely. The poems rhymes good.