My dear LynnE---(The E is for excellence) Your critique is the best birthday present I could have had. And you understood the purpose of the different rhyme schemes. i.e.--the simpler the person---the simpler the rhyme. Actually the book has not been widely disceminated. But you join Elisabeth II, some gal in England, in having read it and responded favorably. Many thanks. I've printed it out. Browningesque? Art