Plea For Trigamy, A Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HFHF FFFF IJIJ EKEK FLFL EMEM JNJN| I've been trying to fashion a wifely ideal | A |
| And find that my tastes are so far from concise | B |
| That to marry completely no fewer than three'll | A |
| Suffice | B |
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| I've subjected my views to severe atmospheric | C |
| Compression but still in defiance of force | D |
| They distinctly fall under three heads like a cleric | C |
| Discourse | D |
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| My first must be fashion's own fancy bred daughter | E |
| Proud peerless and perfect in fact comme il faut | F |
| A waltzer and wit of the very first water | E |
| For show | G |
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| But these beauties that serve to make all the men jealous | H |
| Once face them alone in the family cot | F |
| Heaven's angels incarnate the novelists tell us | H |
| They're not | F |
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| But so much for appearances Now for my second | F |
| My lover the wife of my home and my heart | F |
| Of all fortune and fate of my life to be reckon'd | F |
| A part | F |
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| She must know all the needs of a rational being | I |
| Be skilled to keep counsel to comfort to coax | J |
| And above all things else be accomplished at seeing | I |
| My jokes | J |
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| I complete the m nage by including the other | E |
| With all the domestic prestige of a hen | K |
| As my housekeeper nurse or it may be a mother | E |
| Of men | K |
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| Total three and the virtues all well represented | F |
| With fewer than this such a thing can't be done | L |
| Though I've known married men who declare they're contented | F |
| With one | L |
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| Would you hunt during harvest or hay make in winter | E |
| And how can one woman expect to combine | M |
| Certain qualifications essentially inter | E |
| necine | M |
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| You may say that my prospects are legally sunless | J |
| I state that I find them as clear as can be | N |
| I will marry no wife since I can't do with one less | J |
| Than three | N |
Owen Seaman
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