Signs For The Serious Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHBIJKLMENO| He has a taste that's superfine who flouts at every subway sign | A |
| He reckons not that some there be who cannot tell unless they see | B |
| Spelled plain before them on the wall what things their own they ought to call | C |
| For instance when I come to town whom you may dub a country clown | D |
| How should I know what things to buy if not a subway sign were nigh | E |
| To show the pills I ought to take my all consuming thirst to slake | F |
| The hair restorer that will soothe my infant son with his first tooth | G |
| The ruddy catsup that is sure all family jars and ills to cure | H |
| The dollar watch that daintily we'll serve wound up for early tea | B |
| The window screens that will not hide our failings from the country side | I |
| What breakfast food is our true friend the dime cigars that I should send | J |
| My wife to cure her racking cough The hooks and eyes that won't come off | K |
| Ah hats and soaps and castor oil and cocoa that we need not boil | L |
| And well made suits and patent soup and phonographs But what a dupe | M |
| Of every city tradesman I if all these vendibles I'd try | E |
| To purchase by my native wit Yet what the subway best has writ | N |
| In flaming words with weird device that make I mine and pay the price | O |
Helen Leah Reed
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