House-hunting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCC DDEEFF GGHHGG IIJJKK LLMMNN OOPPQQ RRSSTT| rent | A |
| We wanted fresher cleaner walls | B |
| And bigger rooms and wider halls | B |
| And open plumbing and the dome | C |
| That made the fashionable home | C |
| - | |
| But now with spring we want to sell | D |
| And seek a finer place to dwell | D |
| Our thoughts have turned from dens and domes | E |
| We want the latest thing in homes | E |
| To life we'll not be reconciled | F |
| Until we have a bathroom tiled | F |
| - | |
| A butler's pantry we desire | G |
| Although no butler do we hire | G |
| Nell's life will be one round of gloom | H |
| Without a closet for the broom | H |
| And mine will dreary be and sour | G |
| Unless the bathroom has a shower | G |
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| For months and months we've sat and dreamed | I |
| Of paneled walls and ceilings beamed | I |
| And built in cases for the books | J |
| An attic room to be the cook's | J |
| No house will she consent to view | K |
| Unless it has a sun room too | K |
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| There must be wash bowls here and there | L |
| To save much climbing of the stair | L |
| A sleeping porch we both demand | M |
| This fad has swept throughout the land | M |
| And Oh 'twill give her heart a wrench | N |
| Not to possess a few doors French | N |
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| I want to dig and walk around | O |
| At least full fifty feet of ground | O |
| She wants the latest style in tubs | P |
| I want more room for trees and shrubs | P |
| And a garage with light and heat | Q |
| That can be entered from the street | Q |
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| The trouble is the things we seek | R |
| Cannot be bought for ten a week | R |
| And all the joys for which we sigh | S |
| Are just too rich for us to buy | S |
| We have the taste to cut a dash | T |
| The thing we're lacking most is cash | T |
Edgar Albert Guest
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