House-building And Repairs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHII JJKKLLMMMNNOOOFather is building a new house but I've had one given to me for my own | A |
Brick red with a white window and black where it ought to be glass and the chimney yellow like stone | A |
Brother Bill made me the shelves with his tool box and the table I had before and the pestle and mortar | B |
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 water | B |
We that is I and Jemima my doll For it's a Doll's House you know | C |
Though some of the things are real like the nutmeg grater but not the wooden plates that stand in a row | C |
They came out of a box of toy tea things and I can't think what became of the others | D |
But one never can tell what becomes of anything when one has brothers | D |
Jemima is much smaller than I am and being made of wood she is thin | E |
She takes up too much room inside but she can lie outside on the roof without breaking it in | E |
I wish I had a drawing room to put her in when I want to really cook | F |
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 look | F |
There's no front door to the house because there's no front to have a door in and beside | G |
If there were I couldn't play with anything for I shouldn't know how to get inside | G |
I never heard of a house with only one room except the cobbler's and his was a stall | H |
I don't quite know what that is but it isn't a house and it served him for parlour and kitchen and all | H |
Father says that whilst he is about it he thinks he shall add on a wing | I |
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 thing | I |
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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 match | J |
And my house isn't done either though it's nailed on for Bill took off the roof to make a new one of thatch | J |
The paint is very much scratched but he says that's nothing for it must have had a new coat | K |
And he means to paint it for me inside and out when he paints his own boat | K |
There's a sad hole in the floor but Bill says the wood is as rotten as rotten can be | L |
Which was why he made such a mess of the side with trying to put real glass in the window through which one can see | L |
Bill says he believes that the shortest plan would be to make a new Doll's House with proper rooms in the regular way | M |
Which was what the builder said to Father when he wanted to build in the old front and to day | M |
I heard him tell him the old materials were no good to use and weren't worth the expense of carting away | M |
I don't know when I shall be able to play at dolls again for all the things are put away in a box | N |
Except Jemima and the pestle and mortar and they're in the bottom drawer with my Sunday frocks | N |
I almost wish I had kept the house as it was before | O |
We managed very well with a painted window and without a front door | O |
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 more | O |
Juliana Horatia Ewing
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