An Old-fashioned Type Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EF FG HIHIE JKJLMM NONOPP QEQ R KSKSTT UVU WW| For 'Mabel Brown' I never cared | A |
| My rightful name by birth | B |
| But when the name of Smith I shared | A |
| I seemed to own the earth | B |
| I wrote it without 'y' or 'e' | C |
| Plain 'Mrs Jack Smith' suited me | D |
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| My happiest hour as I look back | E |
| On times of great content | F |
| Was when folks called me 'Mrs Jack ' | - |
| Though 'Mrs Smith' was meant | F |
| It was the pleasure of my life | G |
| To hear them say 'That's Jack Smith's wife ' | - |
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| One day I joined a club They said | H |
| That I must speak or write | I |
| So I did both I wrote and read | H |
| A speech one fateful night | I |
| It made a hit but proved alack | E |
| A death blow to poor 'Mrs Jack ' | - |
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| As 'Mrs Mabel Smith' I'm known | J |
| Throughout my town and State | K |
| My heart feels widowed and alone | J |
| The case is intricate | L |
| Though darling Jack is mine the same | M |
| I am divorced somehow in name | M |
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| Just 'Mabel Smith' I can endure | N |
| It leaves the world in doubt | O |
| But 'Mrs ' makes the marriage sure | N |
| Yet leaves the husband out | O |
| It sounds like Reno or the tomb | P |
| And always fills me full of gloom | P |
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| They say the honours are all mine | Q |
| Well I would trade the pack | E |
| For one sweet year in which to shine | Q |
| Again as 'Mrs Jack ' | - |
| That gave to life a core a pith | R |
| Not found by 'Mrs Mabel Smith ' | - |
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| For one suggests the chosen mate | K |
| And all the joy love brings | S |
| And one suggests a delegate | K |
| To federated things | S |
| I'm built upon the old time plan | T |
| I like to supplement a man | T |
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| If on each point of glory's star | U |
| My name shone like a pearl | V |
| I'd feel a pleasure greater far | U |
| In being 'Jack Smith's girl ' | - |
| It is ridiculous I know | W |
| But then you see I'm fashioned so | W |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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