To A Light Houskeeper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDCECE CFCFEGAG HCHC EIEI| Who hitches laundering articles to the curtain | A |
| string and pastes them on the pane | B |
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| Lady thou that livest | C |
| Just across the way | D |
| If a hang thou givest | C |
| What the people say | D |
| If a cuss thou carest | C |
| What a poet thinks | E |
| Hearken if thou darest | C |
| Most immodest minx | E |
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| Though thy gloves thou tiest | C |
| To the curtain string | F |
| Though the things thou driest | C |
| Gird me while I sing | F |
| Hankies and inventions | E |
| Of the lacy tribe | G |
| Things I may not mention | A |
| Let alone describe | G |
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| These I mutely stand for | H |
| Though the sight offend | C |
| THIS I reprimand for | H |
| Take it from a friend | C |
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| Cease to pin thy tresses | E |
| To the window sill | I |
| Or I'll tell the presses | E |
| Honestly I will | I |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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