Ye Agents Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC CDEBDF C GGH I JJK C DD L MNN OPNNDDHHMM CNCNQDQRSD| These agent men these agent men | A |
| We hear the dreaded step again | A |
| We see a stranger at the door | B |
| And brace ourselves for war once more | B |
| He bows and smiles 'Walk in ' we say | C |
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| He smiles again 'I come to day | C |
| Dear Madam with a great invention | D |
| And Sir pray give me | E |
| your | B |
| attention | D |
| Now here you see is something new | F |
| And just the thing my friends for you ' | - |
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| In vain we interrupt and say | C |
| 'We shall not buy of you to day ' | - |
| 'But Madam Sir you have not seen | G |
| The beauties of this new machine | G |
| When thus arranged your old affair | H |
| 'Tis plain to see is just nowhere ' | - |
| 'No doubt ' I say ''Tis very fine | I |
| And quite superior to mine ' | - |
| This gives him courage On he goes | J |
| And every sentence glibly flows | J |
| Until his lesson is repeated | K |
| To 'warranted if fitly treated ' | - |
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| 'Yes new and fine and grand ' we say | C |
| 'But still we shall not buy to day ' | - |
| 'But Madam Sir pray list to reason | D |
| 'Twill buy itself in half a season | D |
| You see the thing is bound to go ' | - |
| 'Oh certainly we see we know | L |
| But still we do not wish to buy ' | - |
| He turns and leaves us with a sigh | M |
| And while we hasten to our labor | N |
| He goes and persecutes our neighbor | N |
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| But lo another follows on | O |
| Before the last is fairly gone | P |
| One day a reaper next a mower | N |
| And then a fanning mill and sower | N |
| Machines of all kinds 'neath the sun | D |
| Each better than the other one | D |
| A rocker for each dining chair | H |
| A brace to hold the broom in air | H |
| A book just out and you must buy | M |
| Or give a proper reason why | M |
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| So if we sometimes turn away | C |
| Abruptly Sirs you must remember | N |
| That we have heard your tale each day | C |
| From early Spring to late December | N |
| Why if we listened to you all | Q |
| And gave you the required attention | D |
| I think ere long each one would call | Q |
| The 'county house ' the | R |
| best | S |
| invention | D |
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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