'paw' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDEF AAGGA G AAHIIHJJ AADDAJH AAGFFGDD AACCKCC AACJJCJJ AAGGAJJ AADJJDCC AACCCDDHaw | A |
Ai've just obteened a pension for mai Paw | A |
And you should hev seen the people that were theah | B |
Re ally it was surpraising | C |
Maind Ai am not criticaising | C |
But it was embarrassing Ai do decleah | D |
Ai met the Snobson Smythes and Toady Browns and many moah | E |
Belonging to ouah set and wondahed what they came theah foah | F |
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And of course Ai didn't say a word of Paw | A |
Ai rather think they've nevah heard of Paw | A |
But Ai thought it well to mention | G |
That Ai came to get the pension | G |
For an aged person who had worked for Maw | A |
The Snobson Smythes said 'Fancy That is just why we came dahn ' | - |
But Ai've heard they hev a mothah hidden somewheah out of tahn | G |
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Haw | A |
Ai do deserve some gratitude from Paw | A |
To think what Ai've gone thro' foah him to day | H |
Mixing with the lowah classes | I |
And Ai never saw such masses | I |
Of disreputable creatuahs Ai must say | H |
Imposters Ai've no doubt if most of them were but unmasked | J |
And then the most humiliating questions Ai was asked | J |
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Yes he forced me to admit it was foah Paw | A |
Asked me brutally if it was foah mai Paw | A |
Some low bred official fellow | D |
Who conversed in quaite a bellow | D |
And he patronised me laike a high Bashaw | A |
And his questions rudely personal Ai hardly could enduah | J |
The Government should teach its people mannahs Ai am suah | H |
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Haw | A |
Ai'm glad we've got the pension foah Pooah Paw | A |
His maintenance has been O such a strain | G |
Ouah establishment's extensive | F |
And exceedingly expensive | F |
As mai husband has remawked taime and again | G |
It's quaite a miracle how Ai contrive to dress at all | D |
He cut me dahn to twenty guineas for last Mayoral Ball | D |
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And it's such a boah to hev to think of Paw | A |
To hev a secret skeleton laike Paw | A |
Paw you know was once a diggah | C |
And he cuts no social figgah | C |
And his mannahs O they touch us on the raw | K |
Of course we're very fond of him and all thet sort of thing | C |
But we couldn't hev him could we when theah's naice folk visiting | C |
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Haw | A |
It's cost us pawnds and pawnds to care foah Paw | A |
And then it is so hard to keep him dawk | C |
Why no later then last Mond'y | J |
Ai was out with Lady Grundy | J |
When we ran raight into him outsaide the Pawk | C |
Goodness knows Ai managed somehow to elude him with a nod | J |
And Ai said he was a tradesman but she must hev thought it odd | J |
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You can't picture the ubiquity of Paw | A |
And he's really very obstinate is Paw | A |
Why he held to the contention | G |
That this most convenient pension | G |
Was a thing he hadn't any raight to draw | A |
He said we'd kept him eighteen months and ought to keep him yet | J |
But mai husband soon convinced him that he couldn't count on thet | J |
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Haw | A |
He was a pioneah you know mai Paw | A |
But of mai early laife Ai never tell | D |
Paw worked as Ai hev stated | J |
And he had us educated | J |
And later on Ai married rather well | D |
And then you know deah Paw became er well embarrassing | C |
For he is so unconventional and all thet sort of thing | C |
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But the Government has taken ovah Paw | A |
We are happy now we've aisolated Paw | A |
And a bettah era's dawning | C |
For mai husband said this mawning | C |
Thet the money saved would buy a motah caw | C |
Paw was so good to us when we were young that you'll allow | D |
It's really taime the Government did something foah him now | D |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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