The Sensible Romance Of Mildred Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE FBGBHBFB IJKJLJGM NEOEPQR| MILDRED McGee was a beautiful blond | A |
| As fair as peroxide could make her | B |
| She was never so shy that a man going by | C |
| Would imagine that she was a Quaker | B |
| She had suitors that called every night in the week | D |
| And one of them worked in a shoe shop | E |
| But her 'favor ite' man was a chap named McGann | F |
| Who was boss of a gang in a glue shop | E |
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| Her folks used to scoff at young Patrick McGann | F |
| For they wished her to marry a plumber | B |
| But Mildred was true to the maker of glue | G |
| Though she flirted at times with a drummer | B |
| Though she flirted at times with the pharmacist's clerk | H |
| And she flirted at times with the baker | B |
| She stuck to McGann the glue factory man | F |
| Not a bit could her fond parents shake her | B |
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| 'You're in awful bad odor ' she said 'with my folks | I |
| When you come they both turn up their noses | J |
| But I said when they kicked that the plumber they've picked | K |
| Isn't scented with attar of roses | J |
| When a girl is in love with a fellow I've found | L |
| There's something inside her that rages | J |
| An' I'd rather be true to a sweetheart like you | G |
| Than a sweet smelling chap with no wages | M |
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| 'There's many fine fellows who brag of their jobs | N |
| An' spend all their coin in a brew shop | E |
| An' take it from me I'd much rather be | O |
| The wife of the man in a glue shop | E |
| Not all of us girls can get married to dudes | P |
| An' college professors an' scholars | Q |
| With you I'm content I'll not stop at a scent | R |
| So long as you bring in the dollars ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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