The Kick Under The Table Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDFGFHII FFJKKLLFMM NOOPPFNNNQQ| After a man has been married awhile | A |
| And his wife has grown used to his manner | B |
| And style | A |
| When she knows form the twinkle that lights | C |
| Up his eye | D |
| The thoughts he is thinking the wherefore and | E |
| Why | D |
| And just what he'll say and just what he'll do | F |
| And is sure that he'll make a bad break ere he's | G |
| Through | F |
| She has one little trick that she'll work when | H |
| She's able | I |
| She takes a sly kick at him under the table | I |
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| He may fancy the story he's telling is true | F |
| Or he's doing the thing which is proper to do | F |
| He may fancy he's holding his own with the | J |
| Rest | K |
| The life of the party and right at his best | K |
| When quickly he learns to his utter dismay | L |
| That he mustn't say what he's just started to say | L |
| He is stopped at the place where he hoped to | F |
| Begin | M |
| By his wife who has taken at kick at his shin | M |
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| If he picks the wrong fork for the salad he | N |
| Knows | O |
| That fact by the feel of his wife's slippered toes | O |
| If he's started a bit of untellable news | P |
| On the calf of his leg there is planted a bruise | P |
| Oh I wonder sometimes what would happen to | F |
| Me | N |
| If the wife were not seated just where she | N |
| Could be | N |
| On guard every minute to watch every trick | Q |
| And keep me in line all the time with her kick | Q |
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