Next Door Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDDEFEFGDGDD HIHIJDJD D| Whenever I m moving my furniture in | A |
| Or shifting my furniture out | B |
| Which is nearly as often and risky as Sin | A |
| In these days of shifting about | B |
| There isn t a stretcher there isn t a stick | C |
| Nor a mat that belongs to the floor | D |
| There isn t a pot Oh my heart groweth sick | C |
| That escapes from the glare of Next Door | D |
| The Basilisk Glare of Next Door | D |
| Be it morn noon or night be it early or late | E |
| Be it summer or winter or spring | F |
| I cannot sneak down just to list at the gate | E |
| For the song that the bottle ohs sing | F |
| With some bottles to sell that shall bring me a beer | G |
| And lead up to one or two more | D |
| But I feel in my backbone the serpentine sneer | G |
| And the Basilisk Glare of Next Door | D |
| The political woman Next Door | D |
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| I really can t say being no one of note | H |
| Why she glares at my odds and my ends | I |
| Excepting maybe I m a frivolous Pote | H |
| With one or two frivolous friends | I |
| Who help me to shift and to warm up the house | J |
| For three or four glad hours or more | D |
| In a suburb that hasn t the soul of a louse | J |
| And they ve got no respect for Next Door | D |
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| They don t give a damn for Next Door | D |
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Henry Lawson
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