The Broken-teapot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBACC DEFFEGG AHIIHJJ KLMNLOO| Mum's bit of egg money on the mantelpiece | A |
| In the broken teapot in the olden days | A |
| Hardly earned and hoarded there | B |
| Much content afforded there | B |
| Long before inspectors came and bureaucratic ways | A |
| But science by the barn door rules the farmer's lot | C |
| And Mum's bit of egg money dwindles in the pot | C |
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| Ever since the first years this was mother's perquisite | D |
| Eggs daily gathered by the old barn door | E |
| From the stable gathered in | F |
| From the shed and fodder bin | F |
| Carted in and traded at the small town store | E |
| Gathered from the wayward hen laying far afield | G |
| As the new cleared acres gave their golden yield | G |
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| Long it was a stand by while the kids were little ones | A |
| Mum's broken teapot resting on the shelf | H |
| Some print to make a dress for Lil | I |
| Sunday boots for Joe and Bill | I |
| A loan to Dad and now and then a trifle for herself | H |
| Growing heavy Christmas time by dint of watchful thrift | J |
| To buy a little Christmas cheer and here and there a gift | J |
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| But Mum's bit of egg money grows a thing of history | K |
| And Mum's broken teapot an heirloom now indeed | L |
| Since Science ousts the picturesque | M |
| And Dad has bought an office desk | N |
| To puzzle o'er official rules and size and weight and breed | L |
| But Mum is brooding darkly o'er the forbidden egg | O |
| Which like a furtive gangsteress she threatens to bootleg | O |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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