The Old Wooden Tub Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EEFFGG HHIIDD JJKKDD| I like to get to thinking of the old days that are gone | A |
| When there were joys that never more the world will look upon | B |
| The days before inventors smoothed the little cares away | C |
| And made what seemed but luxuries then the joys of every day | C |
| When bathrooms were exceptions and we got our weekly scrub | D |
| By standing in the middle of a little wooden tub | D |
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| We had no rapid heaters and no blazing gas to burn | E |
| We boiled the water on the stove and each one took his turn | E |
| Sometimes to save expenses we would use one tub for two | F |
| The water brother Billy used for me would also do | F |
| Although an extra kettle I was granted I admit | G |
| On winter nights to freshen and to warm it up a bit | G |
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| We carried water up the stairs in buckets and in pails | H |
| And sometimes splashed it on our legs and rent the air with wails | H |
| But if the nights were very cold by closing every door | I |
| We were allowed to take our bath upon the kitchen floor | I |
| Beside the cheery stove we stood and gave ourselves a rub | D |
| In comfort most luxurious in that old wooden tub | D |
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| But modern homes no more go through that joyous weekly fun | J |
| And through the sitting rooms at night no half dried children run | J |
| No little flying forms go past too swift to see their charms | K |
| With shirts and underwear and things tucked underneath their arms | K |
| The home's so full of luxury now it's almost like a club | D |
| I sometimes wish we could go back to that old wooden tub | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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