Which Has More Patience -- Man Or Woman? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJKFFK EELKKL| As my letter must be brief | A |
| I'll at once state my belief | A |
| And this it is that since the world began | B |
| And Adam first did say | C |
| 'Twas Eve led me astray | C |
| A woman hath more patience than a man | B |
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| If a man's obliged to wait | D |
| For some one who's rather late | D |
| No mortal ever got in such a stew | E |
| And if something can't be found | F |
| That he's sure should be around | F |
| The listening air sometimes grows fairly blue | E |
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| Just watch a man who tries | G |
| To soothe a baby's cries | G |
| Or put a stove pipe up in weather cold | H |
| Into what a state he'll get | I |
| How he'll fuss and fume and fret | I |
| And stamp and bluster round and storm and scold | H |
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| Some point to Job with pride | J |
| As an argument for their side | J |
| Why it was so rare a patient man to see | K |
| That when one was really found | F |
| His discoverers were bound | F |
| To preserve for him a place in history | K |
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| And while I admit it's true | E |
| That man has some patience too | E |
| And that woman isn't always sweetly calm | L |
| Still I think all must agree | K |
| On this central fact that she | K |
| For central all round patience bears the palm | L |
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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