Take Up The Household Burden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGDGHIJI AKLKMNKN AOPOQRSR| Take up the household burden | A |
| No iron rule of kings | B |
| But make your family understand | C |
| That you are running things | B |
| Don't storm around and bluster | D |
| And don't get mad and swear | E |
| If in the soup is floating | F |
| A rag and a hank of hair | E |
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| Take up the household burden | A |
| In patience to abide | G |
| To curse the irate grocer | D |
| And make your wife confide | G |
| By open speech and simple | H |
| And hundred times made plain | I |
| How she has sought to profit | J |
| In spending all you gain | I |
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| Take up the household burden | A |
| The little baby boy | K |
| And walk the floor in anguish | L |
| And don't let it annoy | K |
| For when the kid seems sleepy | M |
| And you are feeling sold | N |
| There comes a cry from baby boy | K |
| That makes your blood run cold | N |
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| Take up the household burden | A |
| And try and be a man | O |
| Just simply grin and bear it | P |
| And do the best you can | O |
| Come now and try your manhood | Q |
| And let the future go | R |
| And listen to your elders | S |
| They've tried it and they know | R |
Edwin C. Ranck
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