Call It A Good Marriage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFD GHICAJEC AKLCCMNC| Call it a good marriage | A |
| For no one ever questioned | B |
| Her warmth his masculinity | C |
| Their interlocking views | D |
| Except one stray graphologist | C |
| Who frowned in speculation | E |
| At her h's and her s's | F |
| His p's and w's | D |
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| Though few would still subscribe | G |
| To the monogamic axiom | H |
| That strife below the hip bones | I |
| Need not estrange the heart | C |
| Call it a good marriage | A |
| More drew those two together | J |
| Despite a lack of children | E |
| Than pulled them apart | C |
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| Call it a good marriage | A |
| They never fought in public | K |
| They acted circumspectly | L |
| And faced the world with pride | C |
| Thus the hazards of their love bed | C |
| Were none of our damned business | M |
| Till as jurymen we sat on | N |
| Two deaths by suicide | C |
Robert Graves
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