The Social Order Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE AE FFFEGEEEFHIHJFE| I | A |
| This government official | B |
| Whose wife is several years his senior | C |
| Has such a caressing air | D |
| When he shakes hands with young ladies | E |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Pompes Fun bres | E |
| - | |
| This old lady | F |
| Who was fcso old that she was an atheist' | F |
| Is now surrounded | F |
| By six candles and a crucifix | E |
| While the second wife of a nephew | G |
| Makes hay with the things in her house | E |
| Her two cats | E |
| Go before her into Avernus | E |
| A sort of chloroformed suttee | F |
| And it is to be hoped that their spirits will walk | H |
| With their tails up | I |
| And with a plaintive gentle mewing | H |
| For it is certain that she has left on this earth | J |
| No sound | F |
| Save a squabble of female connections | E |
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