When Nellie's On The Job Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDBBCC EEFFGG AAAACC| The bright spots in my life are when the servant quits the place | A |
| Although that grim disturbance brings a frown to Nellie's face | A |
| The week between the old girl's' reign and entry of the new | B |
| Is one that's filled with happiness and comfort through and through | B |
| The charm of living's back again a charm that servants rob | C |
| I like the home I like the meals when Nellie's on the job | C |
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| There's something in a servant's ways however fine they be | D |
| That has a cold and distant touch and frets the soul of me | D |
| The old home never looks so well as in that week or two | B |
| That we are servantless and Nell has all the work to do | B |
| There is a sense of comfort then that makes my pulses throb | C |
| And home is as it ought to be when Nellie's on the job | C |
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| Think not that I'd deny her help or grudge the servant's pay | E |
| When one departs we try to get another right away | E |
| I merely state the simple fact that no such joys I've known | F |
| As in those few brief days at home when we've been left alone | F |
| There is a gentleness that seems to soothe this selfish elf | G |
| And Oh I like to eat those meals that Nellie gets herself | G |
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| You cannot buy the gentle touch that mother gives the place | A |
| No servant girl can do the work with just the proper grace | A |
| And though you hired the queen of cooks to fashion your croquettes | A |
| Her meals would not compare with those your loving comrade gets | A |
| So though the maid has quit again and she is moved to sob | C |
| The old home's at its finest now for Nellie's on the job | C |
Edgar Albert Guest
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