The Ideal Candidates Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE F AF GHFHFIJIJII KL GL KI GI KMMN GN KB GB KOON GN KK GK KPPN GN GQRQRSTSTII A| A by law of the New York Board of Education says No married woman | A |
| shall be appointed to any teaching or supervising position in the New | B |
| York public schools unless her husband is mentally or physically | C |
| incapacitated to earn a living or has deserted her for a period of not | D |
| less than one year | E |
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| CHARACTERS | F |
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| Board of Education | A |
| Three Would Be Teachers | F |
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| Chorus by Board | G |
| Now please don't waste | H |
| Your time and ours | F |
| By pleas all based | H |
| On mental powers | F |
| She seems to us | I |
| The proper stuff | J |
| Who has a hus | I |
| Band bad enough | J |
| All other pleas appear to us | I |
| Excessively superfluous | I |
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| st Teacher | K |
| My husband is not really bad | L |
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| Board | G |
| How very sad how very sad | L |
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| st Teacher | K |
| He's good but hear my one excuse | I |
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| Board | G |
| Oh what's the use oh what's the use | I |
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| st Teacher | K |
| Last winter in a railroad wreck | M |
| He lost an arm and broke his neck | M |
| He's doomed but lingers day by day | N |
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| Board | G |
| Her husband's doomed Hurray hurray | N |
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| nd Teacher | K |
| My husband's kind and healthy too | B |
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| Board | G |
| Why then of course you will not do | B |
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| nd Teacher | K |
| Just hear me out You'll find you're wrong | O |
| It's true his body's good and strong | O |
| But ah his wits are all astray | N |
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| Board | G |
| Her husband's mad Hip hip hurray | N |
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| rd Teacher | K |
| My husband's wise and well the creature | K |
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| Board | G |
| Then you can never be a teacher | K |
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| rd Teacher | K |
| Wait For I led him such a life | P |
| He could not stand me as a wife | P |
| Last Michaelmas he ran away | N |
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| Board | G |
| Her husband hates her Hip hurray | N |
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| Chorus by Board | G |
| Now we have found | Q |
| Without a doubt | R |
| By process sound | Q |
| And well thought out | R |
| Each candidate | S |
| Is fit in truth | T |
| To educate | S |
| The mind of youth | T |
| No teacher need apply to us | I |
| Whose married life's harmonious | I |
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| Curtain | A |
Alice Duer Miller
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