For Others-and His Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB DBDBEEEB FBFBGGGB| HE took off his hat to the woman next door | A |
| But he wouldn't do that for his wife | B |
| He picked up the handkerchief dropped Jon the floor | A |
| But he wouldn't do that for his wife | B |
| He ran for a chair when a fair maiden stood | C |
| Did everything that a gentleman should | C |
| When leaving he helped her get into her hood | C |
| But he wouldn't do that for his wife | B |
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| He offered his arm to the fair Mrs Brown | D |
| But he wouldn't do that for his wife | B |
| He gallantly carried her parcels from town | D |
| But he wouldn't do that for his wife | B |
| He helped her alight from the trolley car then | E |
| Didn't stand on the platform to smoke with the men | E |
| But sat down beside her I'll say it again | E |
| That he wouldn't do that for his wife | B |
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| If it 'a proper these little attentions to pay | F |
| Then he ought to pay them to his wife | B |
| No man is polite let me venture to say | F |
| If he isn't polite to his wife | B |
| Fair woman deserves all our courtesies true | G |
| And enough for her no man is able to do | G |
| But the man who's a gentleman right through and through | G |
| Is a gentleman first to his wife | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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