Lines To The Wash Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED DFDF GHGH DBDB ADAD| LADY when you say you'll come | A |
| Tuesday morn to do our washing | B |
| Tell us if there isn't some | A |
| Way to know if you are joshing | B |
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| When you promise to be here | C |
| Toiling at our tubs and wringers | D |
| And we think you are sincere | E |
| Tell us do you cross your fingers | D |
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| When we show you round our place | D |
| And you vow you'll come and clean it | F |
| How we ask you to your face | D |
| Can we know you really mean it | F |
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| You with promises are glib | G |
| This we do not say to grieve you | H |
| But so many times you fib | G |
| Tell us when can we believe you | H |
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| Lady when we rise at six | D |
| Just to get the water boiling | B |
| We are in a sorry fix | D |
| When you dodge your day of toiling | B |
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| All your failures leave us glum | A |
| It's a shame to waste a day so | D |
| If you do not mean to come | A |
| Why on earth do you not say so | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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