Sign-board Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAACDC AEBEDFCF ABABGHBH BIAIBJAJ ABABK AB AALAAMBM| I will paint you a sign rumseller | A |
| And hang it above your door | A |
| A truer and better signboard | B |
| Than ever you had before | A |
| I will paint with the skill of a master | A |
| And many shall pause to see | C |
| This wonderful piece of painting | D |
| So like the reality | C |
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| I will paint yourself rumseller | A |
| As you wait for that fair young boy | E |
| Just in the morning of manhood | B |
| A mother's pride and joy | E |
| He has no thought of stopping | D |
| But you greet him with a smile | F |
| And you seem so blithe and friendly | C |
| That he pauses to chat awhile | F |
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| I will paint you again rumseller | A |
| I will paint you as you stand | B |
| With a foaming glass of liquor | A |
| Extended in your hand | B |
| He wavers but you urge him | G |
| Drink pledge me just this one | H |
| And he takes the glass and drains it | B |
| And the hellish work is done | H |
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| And next I will paint a drunkard | B |
| Only a year has flown | I |
| But into that loathsome creature | A |
| The fair young boy has grown | I |
| The work was sure and rapid | B |
| I will paint him as he lies | J |
| In a torpid drunken slumber | A |
| Under the wintry skies | J |
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| I will paint the form of the mother | A |
| As she kneels at her darling's side | B |
| Her beautiful boy that was dearer | A |
| Than all the world beside | B |
| I will paint the shape of a coffin | K |
| Labeled with one word 'lost ' | - |
| I will paint all this rumseller | A |
| And will paint it free of cost | B |
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| The sin and the shame and the sorrow | A |
| The crime and the want and the woe | A |
| That are born there in your workshop | L |
| No hand can paint you know | A |
| But I'll paint you a sign rumseller | A |
| And many shall pause to view | M |
| This wonderful swinging signboard | B |
| So terribly fearfully true | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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