I Do, I Will, I Have Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFDGHIAHJKLFM LNONBIPI| How 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 |
| - | |
| 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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