Washing The Clothes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC ADAD EFGF| This is the way we wash the clo'es | A |
| Free from dirt and smoke and clay | B |
| Through and through the water flows | A |
| Carries Ugly right away | B |
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| This is the way we bleach the clo'es | A |
| Lay them out upon the green | C |
| Through and through the sunshine goes | A |
| Makes them white as well as clean | C |
| - | |
| This is the way we dry the clo'es | A |
| Hang them on the bushes about | D |
| Through and through the soft wind blows | A |
| Draws and drives the wetness out | D |
| - | |
| Water sun and windy air | E |
| Make the clothes clean white and sweet | F |
| Lay them now in lavender | G |
| For the Sunday folded neat | F |
George Macdonald
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