When The Dressmaker Comes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFFG HHIIJJBBIBCI KKL BBMMCNN| WHEN the dressmaker comes I am told to clear out | A |
| For they don't want me anywhere hanging about | A |
| At seven in the morning they send me away | B |
| With ' Don't you come back till the close of the day | B |
| She'll be here for a week and we've so much to do | C |
| That we can't afford to be bothered by you | C |
| So get up and dress | D |
| Eat your breakfast in less | D |
| Than a jiffy She's coming today clear the track | E |
| Here's your hat Now good bye | F |
| Move along and be spry | F |
| You must hurry away but O don't hurry back ' | G |
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| When the dressmaker comes every room in the place | H |
| Is littered with patterns and trimmings and lace | H |
| There are snippings and cuttings from parlor to kitchen | I |
| And stuff on each bed that the women are stitchin' | I |
| And never a chair from the time they begin it | J |
| But is sure to have needles and pins sticking in it | J |
| And always they say | B |
| At the coming of day | B |
| 'Get up and get out just as quick as you can | I |
| Hurry up now Skiddoo | B |
| This is no place for you | C |
| When the dressmaker's here we can't fuss with a man | I |
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| When the dressmaker comes I am driven from home | K |
| They hand me my hat and command me to roam | K |
| And the meals they do get would arouse Dr Wiley | L |
| The chops are half cooked and the coffee is 'riley ' | - |
| And all through the week not a kind word is said | B |
| Unto me from the morn 'till I sneak up to bed | B |
| With a mouth full of pins | M |
| Thus my darling begins | M |
| 'Can't you see we are busy We've no time for you | C |
| Goodness gracious please go | N |
| You 're delaying us so | N |
| And please don't come back till the dressmaker's through ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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