In Trouble Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKBK LMNMOPQP RSGSTRUR| It's all for nothing I've lost him now | A |
| I suppose it had to be | B |
| But oh I never thought it of him | C |
| Nor he never thought it of me | B |
| And all for a kiss on your evening out | D |
| And a field where the grass was down | E |
| And he 'as gone to God knows where | F |
| And I may go on the town | E |
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| The worst of all was the thing he said | G |
| The night that he went away | H |
| He said he'd 'a married me right enough | I |
| If I hadn't 'a been so gay | H |
| Me gay When I'd cried and I'd asked him not | J |
| But he said he loved me so | K |
| An' whatever he wanted seemed right to me | B |
| An' how was a girl to know | K |
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| Well the river is deep and drowned folk sleep sound | L |
| An' it might be the best to do | M |
| But when he made me a light o' love | N |
| He made me a mother too | M |
| I've had enough sin to last my time | O |
| If 'twas sin as I got it by | P |
| But it ain't no sin to stand by his kid | Q |
| And work for it till I die | P |
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| But oh the long days and the death long nights | R |
| When I feel it move and turn | S |
| And cry alone in my single bed | G |
| And count what a girl can earn | S |
| To buy the baby the bits of things | T |
| HE ought to ha' bought by rights | R |
| And wonder whether he thinks of Us | U |
| And if he sleeps sound o' nights | R |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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