Every Thing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDECEDFGFG HIHJJIKKLM NOOOP QRRSQS TTUQ VWWV XXYYZA2B2C2D2E2E2D2A 2Z F2F2BBOOG2G2 H2H2I2I2J2K2QL2QL2Since man has been articulate | A |
Mechanical improvidently wise | B |
Servant of Fate | A |
He has not understood the little cries | B |
And foreign conversations of the small | C |
Delightful creatures that have followed him | D |
Not far behind | E |
Has failed to hear the sympathetic call | C |
Of Crockery and Cutlery those kind | E |
Reposeful Teraphim | D |
Of his domestic happiness the Stool | F |
He sat on or the Door he entered through | G |
He has not thanked them overbearing fool | F |
What is he coming to | G |
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But you should listen to the talk of these | H |
Honest they are and patient they have kept | I |
Served him without his Thank you or his Please | H |
I often heard | J |
The gentle Bed a sigh between each word | J |
Murmuring before I slept | I |
The Candle as I blew it cried aloud | K |
Then bowed | K |
And in a smoky argument | L |
Into the darkness went | M |
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The Kettle puffed a tentacle of breath | N |
' Pooh I have boiled his water I don't know | O |
Why and he always says I boil too slow | O |
He never calls me 'Sukie dear ' and oh | O |
I wonder why I squander my desire | P |
Sitting submissive on his fire ' | - |
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Now the old Copper Basin suddenly | Q |
Rattled and tumbled from the shelf | R |
Bumping and crying ' I can fall by myself | R |
Without a woman's hand | S |
To patronize and coax and flatter me | Q |
I understand | S |
The lean and poise of gravitable land ' | - |
It gave a raucous and tumultuous shout | T |
Twisted itself convulsively about | T |
Rested upon the foor and while I stare | U |
It stares and grins at me | Q |
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The old impetuous Gas above my head | V |
Begins irascibly to flare and fret | W |
Wheezing into its epileptic jet | W |
Reminding me I ought to go to bed | V |
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The Rafters creak an Empty Cupboard door | X |
Swings open now a wild Plank of the floor | X |
Breaks from its joist and leaps behind my foot | Y |
Down from the chimney half a pound of Soot | Y |
Tumbles and lies and shakes itself again | Z |
The Putty cracks against hte window pane | A2 |
A piece of Paper in the basket shoves | B2 |
Another piece and toward the bottom moves | C2 |
My independent Pencil while I write | D2 |
Breaks at the point the ruminating Clock | E2 |
Stirs all its body and begins to rock | E2 |
Warning the waiting presence of the Night | D2 |
Strikes the dead hour and tumbles to the plain | A2 |
Ticking of ordinary work again | Z |
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You do well to remind me and I praise | F2 |
Your strangely individual foreign ways | F2 |
You call me from myself to recognize | B |
Companionship in your unselfish eyes | B |
I want your dear acquaintances although | O |
I pass you arrogantly over throw | O |
Your lovely sounds and squander them along | G2 |
My busy days I 'll do you no more wrong | G2 |
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Purr for me Sukie like a faithful cat | H2 |
You my well trampled Boots and you my Hat | H2 |
Remain my friends I feel though I don't speak | I2 |
Your touch grow kindlier from week to week | I2 |
It well becomes our mutual happiness | J2 |
To go toward the same end more or less | K2 |
There is not much dissimilarity | Q |
Not much to choose I know it well in fine | L2 |
Between the purposes of you and me | Q |
And your eventual Rubbish Heap and mine | L2 |
Harold Monro
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