Wives By The Dozen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB| O Death how thou spoil'st the best project of life | A |
| Said Gabriel who still as he bury'd one wife | A |
| For the sake of her family married her cousin | B |
| And thus in an honest collateral line | C |
| He still married on till his number was nine | C |
| Full sorry to die till he made up his dozen | B |
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