Mother's Party Dress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEEEFFGGAAE HHIIHHJJH KKHHHH LMIIBBNNK HHHHOOPPQ| 'Some day ' says Ma 'I'm goin' to get | A |
| A party dress all trimmed with jet | A |
| An' hire a seamstress in an' she | B |
| Is goin' to fit it right on me | B |
| An' then when I'm invited out | C |
| To teas an' socials hereabout | C |
| I'll put it on an' look as fine | D |
| As all th' women friends of mine ' | E |
| An' Pa looked up 'I sold a cow ' | E |
| Says he 'go down an' get it now ' | E |
| An' Ma replied 'I guess I'll wait | F |
| We've other needs that's just as great | F |
| The children need some clothes to wear | G |
| An' there are shoes we must repair | G |
| It ain't important now to get | A |
| A dress fer me at least not yet | A |
| I really can't afford it ' | E |
| - | |
| Ma's talked about that dress fer years | H |
| How she'd have appliqued revers | H |
| The kind o' trimmin' she would pick | I |
| How 't would be made to fit her slick | I |
| The kind o' black silk she would choose | H |
| The pattern she would like to use | H |
| An' I can mind the time when Pa | J |
| Give twenty dollars right to Ma | J |
| An' said 'Now that's enough I guess | H |
| Go buy yourself that party dress ' | - |
| An' Ma would take th' bills an' smile | K |
| An' say 'I guess I'll wait awhile | K |
| Aunt Kitty's poorly now with chills | H |
| She needs a doctor and some pills | H |
| I'll buy some things fer her I guess | H |
| An' anyhow about that dress | H |
| I really can't afford it ' | - |
| - | |
| An' so it's been a goin' on | L |
| Her dress fer other things has gone | M |
| Some one in need or some one sick | I |
| Has always touched her to th' quick | I |
| Or else about th' time 'at she | B |
| Could get th' dress she'd always see | B |
| The children needin' somethin' new | N |
| An' she would go an' get it too | N |
| An' when we frowned at her she'd smile | K |
| An' say 'The dress can wait awhile ' | - |
| Although her mind is set on laces | H |
| Her heart goes out to other places | H |
| An' somehow too her money goes | H |
| In ways that only mother knows | H |
| While there are things her children lack | O |
| She won't put money on her back | O |
| An' that is why she hasn't got | P |
| A party dress of silk an' not | P |
| Because she can't afford it | Q |
Edgar Albert Guest
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