House-building And Repairs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHII JJKKLLMMMNNOOO

Father is building a new house but I've had one given to me for my ownA
Brick red with a white window and black where it ought to be glass and the chimney yellow like stoneA
Brother Bill made me the shelves with his tool box and the table I had before and the pestle and mortarB
And Mother gave me the jam pot when it was empty it's rather big but it's the only pot we have that will really hold waterB
We that is I and Jemima my doll For it's a Doll's House you knowC
Though some of the things are real like the nutmeg grater but not the wooden plates that stand in a rowC
They came out of a box of toy tea things and I can't think what became of the othersD
But one never can tell what becomes of anything when one has brothersD
Jemima is much smaller than I am and being made of wood she is thinE
She takes up too much room inside but she can lie outside on the roof without breaking it inE
I wish I had a drawing room to put her in when I want to really cookF
I have to have the kitchen table outside as it is and the pestle and mortar is rather too heavy for it and everybody can lookF
There's no front door to the house because there's no front to have a door in and besideG
If there were I couldn't play with anything for I shouldn't know how to get insideG
I never heard of a house with only one room except the cobbler's and his was a stallH
I don't quite know what that is but it isn't a house and it served him for parlour and kitchen and allH
Father says that whilst he is about it he thinks he shall add on a wingI
And brother Bill says he'll nail my Doll's House on the top of an old tea chest which will come to the same thingI
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Father's house is not finished though the wing is for now the builder says it will be all wrong if there isn't another to matchJ
And my house isn't done either though it's nailed on for Bill took off the roof to make a new one of thatchJ
The paint is very much scratched but he says that's nothing for it must have had a new coatK
And he means to paint it for me inside and out when he paints his own boatK
There's a sad hole in the floor but Bill says the wood is as rotten as rotten can beL
Which was why he made such a mess of the side with trying to put real glass in the window through which one can seeL
Bill says he believes that the shortest plan would be to make a new Doll's House with proper rooms in the regular wayM
Which was what the builder said to Father when he wanted to build in the old front and to dayM
I heard him tell him the old materials were no good to use and weren't worth the expense of carting awayM
I don't know when I shall be able to play at dolls again for all the things are put away in a boxN
Except Jemima and the pestle and mortar and they're in the bottom drawer with my Sunday frocksN
I almost wish I had kept the house as it was beforeO
We managed very well with a painted window and without a front doorO
I don't know what Father means to do with his house but if ever mine is finished I'll never have it altered any moreO

Juliana Horatia Ewing



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