My Wife-s Second Husband Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE CGHGIEJE IKCKDLML NOPONQCQ IRCRISLS CTUTIDMD| THE WORLD goes round old fellow | A |
| And still I m in the swim | B |
| While my wife s second husband | C |
| Is growing old and grim | B |
| I meet him in the city | D |
| It all seems very tame | E |
| He glances at me sometimes | F |
| As if I were to blame | E |
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| Oh my wife s second husband | C |
| Was handsome young and true | G |
| He had his boyish visions | H |
| I had my visions too | G |
| He made a model lover | I |
| The greenest in the game | E |
| They say when I was married | J |
| That I was just the same | E |
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| Though I am ten years older | I |
| My hair is dark to day | K |
| While my wife s second husband | C |
| Is quickly growing grey | K |
| I drank when first he knew me | D |
| And he drank not at all | L |
| I see that he through drinking | M |
| Is going to the wall | L |
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| A sweet ill treated woman | N |
| A drunken brute Good Lord | O |
| Ah well she got her freedom | P |
| And he got his reward | O |
| He ll fight it out a season | N |
| For Fate will not be forced | Q |
| But my wife s second husband | C |
| Shall surely be divorced | Q |
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| I sympathize and wonder | I |
| What mutual friends would think | R |
| If my wife s second husband | C |
| And I should have a drink | R |
| And I a mere bystander | I |
| It almost seems absurd | S |
| Might lay prophetically | L |
| My hand on my wife s third | S |
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| But my wife s second husband | C |
| His sorrows shall forget | T |
| We ll clasp warm hands in friendship | U |
| And clink our glasses yet | T |
| We ll smoke cigars together | I |
| In pure philosophy | D |
| While calmly contemplating | M |
| The fate of number three | D |
Henry Lawson
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