A Family Row Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FFGGHHDE IIJJKKDE| I freely confess there are good friends of mine | A |
| With whom we are often invited to dine | A |
| Who get on my nerves so that I cannot eat | B |
| Or stay with my usual ease in my seat | B |
| For I know that if something should chance to occur | C |
| Which he may not like or which doesn't please her | C |
| That we'll have to try to be pleasant somehow | D |
| While they stage a fine little family row | E |
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| Now a family row is a private affair | F |
| And guests I am certain should never be there | F |
| I have freely maintained that a man and his wife | G |
| Cannot always agree on their journey through life | G |
| But they ought not to bicker and wrangle and shout | H |
| And show off their rage when their friends are about | H |
| It takes all the joy from a party I vow | D |
| When some couple starts up a family row | E |
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| It's a difficult job to stay cool and polite | I |
| When your host and your hostess are staging a fight | I |
| It's hard to talk sweet to a dame with a frown | J |
| Or smile at a man that you want to knock down | J |
| You sit like a dummy and look far away | K |
| But you just can't help hearing the harsh things they say | K |
| It ruins the dinner I'm telling you now | D |
| When your host and your hostess get mixed in a row | E |
Edgar Albert Guest
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