After The Golden Wedding (three Soliloquies) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA B CDCD EFEF GCGC HIHI JKLK CMCM NOPO HQHQ RSRS RRRR TKTK U VWVW SXSX RRRR QRQR QYQY RHRH ZRZR KRKR QCQC RA2RA2 RRRR B2VB2V RRRR RC2RD2 UE2UE2 B2F2B2F2 U UQUQ| A | |
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| I The husband's | B |
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| She's not a faultless woman no | C |
| She's not an angel in disguise | D |
| She has her rivals here below | C |
| She's not an unexampled prize | D |
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| She does not always see the point | E |
| Of little jests her husband makes | F |
| And when the world is out of joint | E |
| She makes a hundred small mistakes | F |
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| She's not a miracle of tact | G |
| Her temper's not the best I know | C |
| She's got her little faults in fact | G |
| Although I never tell her so | C |
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| But this my wife is why I hold you | H |
| As good a wife as ever stepped | I |
| And why I meant it when I told you | H |
| How cordially our feast I kept | I |
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| You've lived with me these fifty years | J |
| And all the time you loved me dearly | K |
| I may have given you cause for tears | L |
| I may have acted rather queerly | K |
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| I ceased to love you long ago | C |
| I loved another for a season | M |
| As time went on I came to know | C |
| Your worth my wife and saw the reason | M |
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| Why such a wife as you have been | N |
| Is more than worth the world beside | O |
| You loved me all the time my Queen | P |
| You couldn't help it if you tried | O |
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| You loved me as I once loved you | H |
| As each loved each beside the altar | Q |
| And whatsoever I might do | H |
| Your loyal heart could never falter | Q |
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| And if you sometimes fail me sweetest | R |
| And don't appreciate me dear | S |
| No matter such defects are meetest | R |
| For poor humanity I fear | S |
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| And all's forgiven all's forgot | R |
| On this our golden wedding day | R |
| For see she loves me does she not | R |
| So let the world e'en go its way | R |
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| I'm old and nearly useless now | T |
| Each day a greater weakling proves me | K |
| There's compensation anyhow | T |
| I still possess a wife that loves me | K |
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| The wife's | U |
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| Dear worthy husband good old man | V |
| Fit hero of a golden marriage | W |
| I'll show towards you if I can | V |
| And absolutely wifely carriage | W |
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| The months or years which your career | S |
| May still comprise before you perish | X |
| Shall serve to prove that I my dear | S |
| Can honour and obey and cherish | X |
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| Till death us part as soon he must | R |
| And you my dear should shew the way | R |
| I hope you'll always find me just | R |
| The same as on our wedding day | R |
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| I never loved you dearest never | Q |
| Let that be clearly understood | R |
| I thought you good and rather clever | Q |
| And found you really rather good | R |
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| And what was more I loved another | Q |
| But couldn't get him well but then | Y |
| You're just as bad my erring brother | Q |
| You most impeccable of men | Y |
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| Except for this my love was married | R |
| Some weeks before I married you | H |
| While you my amorous dawdler tarried | R |
| Till we'd been wed a year or two | H |
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| You loved me at our wedding I | Z |
| Loved some one else and after that | R |
| I never cast a loving eye | Z |
| On others you well tit for tat | R |
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| But after all I made you cheerful | K |
| Your whims I've humoured saw the point | R |
| Of all your jokes grew duly tearful | K |
| When you were sad yet chose the joint | R |
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| You liked the best of all for dinner | Q |
| And soothed you in your hours of woe | C |
| Although a miserable sinner | Q |
| I am a good wife as wives go | C |
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| I bore with you and took your side | R |
| And kept my temper all the time | A2 |
| I never flirted never cried | R |
| No ranked it as a heinous crime | A2 |
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| When you preferred another lady | R |
| Or used improper words to me | R |
| Or told a story more than shady | R |
| Or snored and snorted after tea | R |
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| Or otherwise gave proofs of being | B2 |
| A dull and rather vain old man | V |
| I still succeeded in agreeing | B2 |
| With all you said the safest plan | V |
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| Yet always strove my point to carry | R |
| And make you do as I desired | R |
| I'm glad my people made me marry | R |
| They hit on just what I required | R |
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| Had love been wanted well I couldn't | R |
| Have given what I'd not to give | C2 |
| Or had a genius asked me wouldn't | R |
| The man have suffered now we live | D2 |
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| Among our estimable neighbours | U |
| A decent and decorous life | E2 |
| I've earned by my protracted labours | U |
| The title of a model wife | E2 |
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| But when beneath the turf you're sleeping | B2 |
| And I'm sitting here in black | F2 |
| Engaged as they'll suppose in weeping | B2 |
| I shall not wish to have you back | F2 |
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| The Vicar's | U |
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| A good old couple kind and wise | U |
| And oh what love for one another | Q |
| They've won those two life's highest prize | U |
| Oh let us copy them my brother | Q |
James Kenneth Stephen
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