The Hen's Complaint Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ KK I GG| Beside an incubator stood | A |
| The would be mother of a brood | B |
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| With drooping wings and nodding head | C |
| These are the clucked out words she said | C |
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| 'O vile invention of the age | D |
| You fill me with a burning rage | D |
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| Unfeeling monster moved by steam | E |
| You rob me of life's sweetest dream | E |
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| Deprived of offspring which I crave | F |
| I must go childless to my grave | F |
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| My aching wings which long to cover | G |
| A chirping brood of nestlings over | G |
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| No more may know that comfort sweet | H |
| Since chickens may be hatched by heat | H |
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| Three weeks of quiet expectation | I |
| Full many a flighty hen's salvation | I |
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| I am denied for now men say | J |
| A hen should be content to lay | J |
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| And furnish eggs to incubate | K |
| And setting hens are out of date | K |
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| Alas for such a cruel fashion ' | - |
| The angry fowl paused choked with passion | I |
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| While from behind a strong hand caught her | G |
| And doused her in a tub of water | G |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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