Dan's Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHIH AAJKL MMFFNNHIH OOPPQRSS TUUHIH VVTTWWXXDDTTHIH| Up in early morning light | A |
| Sweeping dusting 'setting right ' | B |
| Oiling all the household springs | C |
| Sewing buttons tying strings | C |
| Telling Bridget what to do | D |
| Mending rips in Johnny's shoe | D |
| Running up and down the stair | E |
| Tying baby in her chair | E |
| Cutting meat and spreading bread | F |
| Dishing out so much per head | F |
| Eating as she can by chance | G |
| Giving husband kindly glance | G |
| Toiling working busy life | H |
| Smart woman | I |
| Dan's wife | H |
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| Dan comes home at fall of night | A |
| Home so cheerful neat and bright | A |
| Children meet him at the door | J |
| Pull him in and looked him o'er | K |
| Wife asks how the work has gone | L |
| 'Busy times with us at home ' | - |
| Supper done Dan reads with ease | M |
| Happy Dan but one to please | M |
| Children must be put to bed | F |
| All the little prayers are said | F |
| Little shoes are placed in rows | N |
| Bedclothes tucked o'er little toes | N |
| Busy noisy wearing life | H |
| Tired woman | I |
| Dan's wife | H |
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| Dan reads on and falls asleep | O |
| See the woman softly creep | O |
| Baby rests at last poor dear | P |
| Not a word her heart to cheer | P |
| Mending basket full to top | Q |
| Stockings shirt and little frock | R |
| Tired eyes and weary brain | S |
| Side with darting ugly pain | S |
| 'Never mind 'will pass away ' | - |
| She must work but never play | T |
| Closed piano unused books | U |
| Done the walks to easy nooks | U |
| Brightness faded out of life | H |
| Saddened woman | I |
| Dan's wife | H |
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| Upstairs tossing to and fro | V |
| Fever holds the woman low | V |
| Children wander free to play | T |
| When and where they will today | T |
| Bridget loiters dinner's cold | W |
| Dan looks anxious cross and old | W |
| Household screws are out of place | X |
| Lacking one dear patient face | X |
| Steady hands so weak but true | D |
| Hands that knew just what to do | D |
| Never knowing rest or play | T |
| Folded now and laid away | T |
| Work of six in one short life | H |
| Shattered woman | I |
| Dan's wife | H |
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