My Aunt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGHGIJKJ LMHMNOPO QRIRSTUT VWXWYEZE A2B2C2B2D2E2F2E2| My aunt my dear unmarried aunt | A |
| Long years have o er her flown | B |
| Yet still she strains the aching clasp | C |
| That binds her virgin zone | B |
| I know it hurts her though she looks | D |
| As cheerful as she can | E |
| Her waist is ampler than her life | F |
| For life is but a span | E |
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| My aunt my poor deluded aunt | A |
| Her hair is almost gray | G |
| Why will she train that winter curl | H |
| In such a spring like way | G |
| How can she lay her glasses down | I |
| And say she reads as well | J |
| When through a double convex lens | K |
| She just makes out to spell | J |
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| Her father grandpapa I forgive | L |
| This erring lip its smiles | M |
| Vowed she should make the finest girl | H |
| Within a hundred miles | M |
| He sent her to a stylish school | N |
| T was in her thirteenth June | O |
| And with her as the rules required | P |
| Two towels and a spoon | O |
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| They braced my aunt against a board | Q |
| To make her straight and tall | R |
| They laced her up they starved her down | I |
| To make her light and small | R |
| They pinched her feet they singed her hair | S |
| They screwed it up with pins | T |
| Oh never mortal suffered more | U |
| In penance for her sins | T |
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| So when my precious aunt was done | V |
| My grandsire brought her back | W |
| By daylight lest some rabid youth | X |
| Might follow on the track | W |
| Ah said my grandsire as he shook | Y |
| Some powder in his pan | E |
| What could this lovely creature do | Z |
| Against a desperate man | E |
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| Alas nor chariot nor barouche | A2 |
| Nor bandit cavalcade | B2 |
| Tore from the trembling father s arms | C2 |
| His all accomplished maid | B2 |
| For her how happy had it been | D2 |
| And Heaven had spared to me | E2 |
| To see one sad ungathered rose | F2 |
| On my ancestral tree | E2 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Carmen Aurora: I love this and I think its context is very heart-breaking and very very happy and it would make any kind of aunt to go into tears after hearing this heart-warming poem.
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