The Bath Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGH IJIJ KLKL JJJJ JMJM NONO PQPQ JLJL| Hang garlands on the bathroom door | A |
| Let all the passages be spruce | B |
| For lo the victim comes once more | A |
| And ah he struggles like the deuce | B |
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| Bring soaps of many scented sorts | C |
| Let girls in pinafores attend | D |
| With John their brother in his shorts | C |
| To wash their dusky little friend | D |
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| Their little friend the dusky dog | E |
| Short legged and very obstinate | F |
| Faced like a much offended frog | G |
| And fighting hard against his fate | H |
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| No Briton he From palace born | I |
| Chinese patricians he descends | J |
| He keeps their high ancestral scorn | I |
| His spirit breaks but never bends | J |
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| Our water ways he fain would'scape | K |
| He hates the customary bath | L |
| That thins his tail and spoils his shape | K |
| And turns him to a fur clad lath | L |
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| And seeing that the Pekinese | J |
| Have lustrous eyes that bulge like buds | J |
| He fain would save such eyes as these | J |
| Their owner's pride from British suds | J |
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| Vain are his protests in he goes | J |
| His young barbarians crowd around | M |
| They soap his paws they soap his nose | J |
| They soap wherever fur is found | M |
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| And soon still laughing they extract | N |
| His limpness from the darkling tide | O |
| They make the towel's roughness act | N |
| On back and head and dripping side | O |
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| They shout and rub and rub and shout | P |
| He deprecates their odious glee | Q |
| Until at last they turn him out | P |
| A damp gigantic bumble bee | Q |
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| Released he barks and rolls and speeds | J |
| From lawn to lawn from path to path | L |
| And in one glorious minute needs | J |
| More soapsuds and another bath | L |
R. C. Lehmann
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