The Jilted Lover To His Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGDDHH| You needn't pray for me old lady I don't want no one's prayer | A |
| I'm fit and jolly as ever I was you needn't think I care | A |
| When I go whistling down the road when the warm night is falling | B |
| She needn't think I'm whistling her it's another girl I'm calling | B |
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| If I pass her house a dozen times or fifty times a day | C |
| She needn't think I think of her my work lies out that way | C |
| If they should tell her I've grown thin for that is what they've told me | D |
| This cursed weather counts for that and not the girl who sold me | D |
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| And if they say I'm off my feed I still can tip a can | E |
| If I get drunk what's that to her I am not her young man | E |
| I know I've had a lucky let off she ain't no class she ain't | F |
| For all she looked like a bush o' roses and talked like a story book saint | F |
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| I never give a thought to her Don't worry your old head | G |
| I've quite forgot her pretty ways and the cruel things she said | G |
| There's lots of other gals to be had as any chap can see | D |
| So you cheer up you've got no call to go and pray for me | D |
| But all the same if you want to pray you'd best pray God take care of them | H |
| For if I catch them two together by hell I'll swing for the pair of them | H |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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