Whose Blame? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCAB DEDDEFF B BGG B HEHHEIIJJ| 'A woman's work is never done ' | A |
| Said she | B |
| 'From dawn to setting of the sun ' | A |
| Said she | B |
| 'I toil and moil and work and slave | C |
| And do my best to pinch and save | C |
| And yet you say I don't behave ' | A |
| Said she | B |
| - | |
| And twenty men in twenty carts | D |
| In that suburban street | E |
| Long long before the daylight starts | D |
| Are setting out with cakes and tarts | D |
| And fish and milk and meat | E |
| And cauliflowers beans and bread | F |
| What time my lady lies in bed | F |
| - | |
| 'All day I have to live alone ' | - |
| Said she | B |
| 'Attending to the door or 'phone ' | - |
| Said she | B |
| 'While you go gaily into town | G |
| To meet your friends I want a gown | G |
| A hat This life has got me down ' | - |
| Said she | B |
| - | |
| And twenty men when day is done | H |
| In that suburban street | E |
| Who have performed the task of one | H |
| If things more orderly were done | H |
| Drive back along their beat | E |
| It seems absurd But all the same | I |
| Is it my lady who's to blame | I |
| For all these economic cares | J |
| Or just man's muddling of affairs | J |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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