The Last Straw Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFGG HIHIII JIJIII KLKLMM NOPQQQ RIRIQQ QSQSTT| I sing the sofa It had stood for years | A |
| An invitation to benign repose | B |
| A foe to all the fretful brood of fears | A |
| Bidding the weary eye lid sink and close | C |
| Massive and deep and broad it was and bland | D |
| In short the noblest sofa in the land | D |
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| You too my friend my solid friend I sing | E |
| Whom on an afternoon I did behold | F |
| Eying 'twas after lunch the cushioned thing | E |
| And murmuring gently Here are realms of gold | F |
| And I shall visit them you said and be | G |
| The sofa's burden till it's time for tea | G |
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| Let those who will go forth you said and dare | H |
| Beyond the cluster of the little shops | I |
| To strain their limbs and take the eager air | H |
| Seeking the heights of Hedsor and its copse | I |
| I shall abide and watch the far off gleams | I |
| Of fairy beacons from the world of dreams | I |
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| Then forth we fared and you no doubt lay down | J |
| An easy victim to the sofa's charms | I |
| Forgetting hopes of fame and past renown | J |
| Lapped in those padded and alluring arms | I |
| How well you said and veiled your heavy eyes | I |
| It slopes to suit me This is Paradise | I |
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| So we adventured to the topmost hill | K |
| And when the sunset shot the sky with red | L |
| Homeward returned and found you taking still | K |
| Deep draughts of peace with pillows 'neath your head | L |
| His sleep said one has been unduly long | M |
| Another said Let's bring and beat the gong | M |
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| Gongs said a third and gazed with looks intent | N |
| At the full sofa are not adequate | O |
| There fits some dread some heavy punishment | P |
| For one who sleeps with such a dreadful weight | Q |
| Behold with me he moaned a scene accurst | Q |
| The springs are broken and the sofa's burst | Q |
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| Too true Too true Beneath you on the floor | R |
| Lay blent in ruin all the obscure things | I |
| That were the sofa's strength a scattered store | R |
| Of tacks and battens and protruded springs | I |
| Through the rent ticking they had all been spilt | Q |
| Mute proofs and mournful of your weight and guilt | Q |
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| And you You slept as sweetly as a child | Q |
| And when you woke you recked not of your shame | S |
| But babbled greetings stretched yourself and smiled | Q |
| From that eviscerated sofa's frame | S |
| Which flawless erst was now one mighty flaw | T |
| Through the addition of yourself as straw | T |
R. C. Lehmann
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