Music In The Flat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCDCEE FFGGHH IIJJKK LLMMHH JJCCNN

When Tom and I were married we took a little flatA
I had a taste for singing and playing and all thatA
And Tom who loved to hear me said he hopedB
I would not stopC
All practice like so many wives who let theirD
music dropC
So I resolved to set apart an hour or two each dayE
To keeping vocal chords and hands in trim to sing and playE
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The second morning I had been for half and hour or moreF
At work on Haydn s masses when a tap came at my doorF
A nurse who wore a dainty cap and apron and a smileG
Ran down to ask if I would cease my music for awhileG
The lady in the flat above was very ill she saidH
And the sound of my piano was distracting to her headH
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A fortnight s exercises lost ere I began them whenI
The following morning at my door there came that tap againI
A woman with an anguished face implored me to foregoJ
My music for some days to come a man was dead belowJ
I shut down my piano till the corpse had left the houseK
And spoke to Tom in whispers and was quiet as a mouseK
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A week of labour limbered up my stiffened hand and voiceL
I stole an extra hour from sleep to practice and rejoiceL
When ting a ling the door bell rang a discord in my trillM
The baby in the flat across was very very illM
For ten long days that infant s life was hanging by a threadH
And all that time my instrument was silent as the deadH
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So pain and death and sickness came in one perpetual rowJ
When babies were not born above then tenants died belowJ
The funeral over underneath some one fell ill on topC
And begged me for the love of God to let my music dropC
When trouble went not up or down it stalked across the hallN
And so in spite of my resolve I do not play at allN

Ella Wheeler Wilcox



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