Nothing At All In The Paper Today Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDAA ADADEFEFAA AGA HIHIAA AJAJKAKAAA| Nothing at all in the paper today | A |
| Only a murder somewhere or other | B |
| A girl who has put her child away | A |
| Not being a wife as well as a mother | B |
| Or a drunken husband beating a wife | C |
| With the neighbors lying awake to listen | D |
| Scarce aware he has taken a life | C |
| Till in at the window the dawn rays glisten | D |
| But that is all in the regular way | A |
| There's nothing at all in the paper today | A |
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| Nothing at all in the paper today | A |
| To be sure there's a woman died of starvation | D |
| Fell down in the street as so many may | A |
| In this very prosperous Christian nation | D |
| Or two young girls with some inward grief | E |
| Maddened have plunged into the inky waters | F |
| Or father has learnt that his son's a thief | E |
| Or mother been robbed of one of her daughters | F |
| Things that occur in their regular way | A |
| There's nothing at all in the paper today | A |
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| There's nothing at all in the paper today | A |
| Unless you care about things in the city | G |
| How great rich rogues for their crimes must pay | A |
| Though all gentility cries out 'Pity ' | - |
| Like the meanest shop boy that robs a till | H |
| There's a case today if I'm not forgetting | I |
| The lad only 'borrowed' as such lads will | H |
| To pay some money he lost in betting | I |
| But there's nothing in this that's out of the way | A |
| There's nothing at all in the paper today | A |
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| Nothing at all in the paper today | A |
| But the births and bankruptcies deaths and marriages | J |
| But life's events in the old survey | A |
| With Virtue begging and Vice in carriages | J |
| And kindly hearts under ermine gowns | K |
| And wicked breasts under hodden gray | A |
| For goodness belongs not only to clowns | K |
| And o'er others than lords does sin bear sway | A |
| But what do I read 'Drowned wrecked ' Did I say | A |
| There was nothing at all in the paper today | A |
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