The Neighbors Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHFF IIJJFF KKLLMM EENNOO| WHY do I grind from morn till night | A |
| And sick or well sit down to write | A |
| Why do I line my brow with sweat | B |
| An extra buck or two to get | B |
| The reason isn't hard to trace | C |
| For us our neighbors set the pace | C |
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| The Greens go weekly to a show | D |
| And so of course we have to go | D |
| A dollar fifty per they pay | E |
| For seats down in the parquet | E |
| And always they wear evening dress | F |
| We couldn't think of doing less | F |
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| The Browns maintain a servant girl | G |
| The one we have was christened Pearl | G |
| At dinner several kinds of wine | H |
| They serve in glass of rare design | H |
| Their dinners are a great success | F |
| And ours of course must be no less | F |
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| In summer all our neighbors flee | I |
| Unto the mountains or the sea | I |
| They spend two months in big hotels | J |
| And hobnob with the other swells | J |
| And though it's costly I confess | F |
| That wife of mine shall do no less | F |
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| Two doors from us lives Mrs Grout | K |
| Who owns a lovely runabout | K |
| And though she's very nice it's plain | L |
| She looks on us with some disdain | L |
| Although it's more than I can do | M |
| My wife will shortly have one too | M |
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| I 'd like to take a holiday | E |
| And spend a month or two in play | E |
| I'd like to take an ocean trip | N |
| And give this awful grind the slip | N |
| But there's no rest for me the while | O |
| We let our neighbors set the style | O |
Edgar Albert Guest
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