Poet R. C. Lehmann

R. C. Lehmann

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The Bath Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGH IJIJ KLKL JJJJ JMJM NONO PQPQ JLJL

Hang garlands on the bathroom doorA
Let all the passages be spruceB
For lo the victim comes once moreA
And ah he struggles like the deuceB
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Bring soaps of many scented sortsC
Let girls in pinafores attendD
With John their brother in his shortsC
To wash their dusky little friendD
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Their little friend the dusky dogE
Short legged and very obstinateF
Faced like a much offended frogG
And fighting hard against his fateH
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No Briton he From palace bornI
Chinese patricians he descendsJ
He keeps their high ancestral scornI
His spirit breaks but never bendsJ
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Our water ways he fain would'scapeK
He hates the customary bathL
That thins his tail and spoils his shapeK
And turns him to a fur clad lathL
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And seeing that the PekineseJ
Have lustrous eyes that bulge like budsJ
He fain would save such eyes as theseJ
Their owner's pride from British sudsJ
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Vain are his protests in he goesJ
His young barbarians crowd aroundM
They soap his paws they soap his noseJ
They soap wherever fur is foundM
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And soon still laughing they extractN
His limpness from the darkling tideO
They make the towel's roughness actN
On back and head and dripping sideO
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They shout and rub and rub and shoutP
He deprecates their odious gleeQ
Until at last they turn him outP
A damp gigantic bumble beeQ
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Released he barks and rolls and speedsJ
From lawn to lawn from path to pathL
And in one glorious minute needsJ
More soapsuds and another bathL

R. C. Lehmann



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