What Is It? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCB DDDB EEFB GGGB HHHB IIIB JJJB KKKB| What is it maks a crusty wife | A |
| Forget to scold an leeave off strife | A |
| What is it smoothes th' rooad throo life | A |
| It's sooap | B |
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| What is it maks a gaumless muff | C |
| Grow rich an roll i' lots o' stuff | C |
| Woll better men can't get enough | C |
| It's sooap | B |
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| What is it if it worn't theear | D |
| Wod mak some fowks feel varry queer | D |
| An put em i' ther proper sphere | D |
| It's sooap | B |
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| What is it maks fowk wade throo th' snow | E |
| To goa to th' church becoss they know | E |
| 'At th' squire's at hooam an sure to goa | F |
| It's sooap | B |
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| What is it gains fowk invitations | G |
| Throo them at live i' lofty stations | G |
| What is it wins mooast situations | G |
| It's sooap | B |
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| What is it men say they detest | H |
| Yet allus like that chap the best | H |
| 'At gives em twice as mich as th' rest | H |
| It's sooap | B |
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| What is it when the devil sends | I |
| His agents raand to work his ends | I |
| What is it gains him lots o' friends | I |
| It's sooap | B |
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| What is it we should mooast despise | J |
| An by its help refuse to rise | J |
| Tho' poverty's befoor awr eyes | J |
| It's sooap | B |
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| What is it when life's wasting fast | K |
| When all this world's desires are past | K |
| Will prove noa use to us at last | K |
| It's sooap | B |
John Hartley
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