The Kettle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADED FGAGHIED JAKAEDLD MNLNODAD NPHPLDLD| There s many a house of grandeur | A |
| With turret tower and dome | B |
| That knows not peace or comfort | C |
| And does not prove a home | B |
| I do not ask for splendour | A |
| To crown my daily lot | D |
| But this I ask a kitchen | E |
| Where the kettles always hot | D |
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| If things are not all ship shape | F |
| I do not fume or fret | G |
| A little clean disorder | A |
| Does not my nerves upset | G |
| But one thing is essential | H |
| Or seems so in my thought | I |
| And that s a tidy kitchen | E |
| Where the kettle s always hot | D |
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| In my Aunt Hattie s household | J |
| Though skies outside are drear | A |
| Though times are dark and troubled | K |
| You ll always find good cheer | A |
| And in her quaint old kitchen | E |
| The very homiest spot | D |
| The kettle s always singing | L |
| The water s always hot | D |
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| And if you have a headache | M |
| Whate er the hour may be | N |
| There is no tedious waiting | L |
| To get your cup of tea | N |
| I don t know how she does it | O |
| Some magic she has caught | D |
| For the kitchen s cool in summer | A |
| Yet the kettle s always hot | D |
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| Oh there s naught else so dreary | N |
| In household kingdom found | P |
| As a cold and sullen kettle | H |
| That does not make a sound | P |
| And I think that love is lacking | L |
| In the hearts in such a spot | D |
| Or the kettle would be singing | L |
| And the water would be hot | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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