The Housewife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDBEEFFGGHH I I JKKJLLMM| See I am cumbered Lord | A |
| With serving and with small vexatious things | B |
| Upstairs and down my feet | C |
| Must hasten sure and fleet | C |
| So weary that I cannot heed Thy word | D |
| So tired I cannot now mount up with wings | B |
| I wrestle how I wrestle through the hours | E |
| Nay not with principalities nor powers | E |
| Dark spiritual foes of God's and man's | F |
| But with antagonistic pots and pans | F |
| With footmarks in the hall | G |
| With smears upon the wall | G |
| With doubtful ears and small unwashen hands | H |
| And with a babe's innumerable demands | H |
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| I toil with feverish haste while tear drops glisten | I |
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| O child of mine be still And listen listen | I |
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| At last I laid aside | J |
| Important work no other hands could do | K |
| So well I thought no skill contrive so true | K |
| And with my heart's door open open wide | J |
| With leisured feet and idle hands I sat | L |
| I foolish fussy blind as any bat | L |
| Sat down to listen and to learn And lo | M |
| My thousand tasks were done the better so | M |
Fay Inchfawn
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