Tin Wedding Whistle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEEEEEFFEEGGHH IIJJKKIILLEEDDEEMMNN| Though you know it anyhow | A |
| Listen to me darling now | A |
| Proving what I need not prove | B |
| How I know I love you love | C |
| Near and far near and far | D |
| I am happy where you are | D |
| Likewise I have never larnt | E |
| How to be it where you aren't | E |
| Far and wide far and wide | E |
| I can walk with you beside | E |
| Furthermore I tell you what | E |
| I sit and sulk where you are not | E |
| Visitors remark my frown | F |
| Where you're upstairs and I am down | F |
| Yes and I'm afraid I pout | E |
| When I'm indoors and you are out | E |
| But how contentedly I view | G |
| Any room containing you | G |
| In fact I care not where you be | H |
| Just as long as it's with me | H |
| In all your absences I glimpse | I |
| Fire and flood and trolls and imps | I |
| Is your train a minute slothful | J |
| I goad the stationmaster wrothful | J |
| When with friends to bridge you drive | K |
| I never know if you're alive | K |
| And when you linger late in shops | I |
| I long to telephone the cops | I |
| Yet how worth the waiting for | L |
| To see you coming through the door | L |
| Somehow I can be complacent | E |
| Never but with you adjacent | E |
| Near and far near and far | D |
| I am happy where you are | D |
| Likewise I have never larnt | E |
| How to be it where you aren't | E |
| Then grudge me not my fond endeavor | M |
| To hold you in my sight forever | M |
| Let none not even you disparage | N |
| Such a valid reason for a marriage | N |
Ogden Nash
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