I Do, I Will, I Have Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFDGHIAHJKLFM LNONBIPIHow wise I am to have instructed the butler | A |
to instruct the first footman to instruct the second | B |
footman to instruct the doorman to order my carriage | C |
I am about to volunteer a definition of marriage | C |
Just as I know that there are two Hagens Walter and Copen | D |
I know that marriage is a legal and religious alliance entered | E |
into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a | F |
woman who can't sleep with the window open | D |
Moreover just as I am unsure of the difference between | G |
flora and fauna and flotsam and jetsam | H |
I am quite sure that marriage is the alliance of two people | I |
one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other | A |
never forgetsam | H |
And he refuses to believe there is a leak in the water pipe or | J |
the gas pipe and she is convinced she is about to asphyxiate | K |
or drown | L |
And she says Quick get up and get my hairbrushes off the | F |
windowsill it's raining in and he replies Oh they're all right | M |
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it's only raining straight down | L |
That is why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce | N |
Because it's the only known example of the happy meeting of | O |
the immovable object and the irresistible force | N |
So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and | B |
combat over everything debatable and combatable | I |
Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life | P |
particularly if he has income and she is pattable | I |
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