Careers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGB HIHIJGKLHICMNM HODDGM| Father is quite the greatest poet | A |
| That ever lived anywhere | B |
| You say you're going to write great music | C |
| I chose that first it's unfair | B |
| Besides now I can't be the greatest painter and | D |
| do Christ and angels or lovely pears | E |
| and apples and grapes on a green dish | F |
| or storms at sea or anything lovely | G |
| Because that's been taken by Claire | B |
| - | |
| It's stupid to be an engine driver | H |
| And soldiers are horrible men | I |
| I won't be a tailor I won't be a sailor | H |
| And gardener's taken by Ben | I |
| It's unfair if you say that you'll write great | J |
| music you horrid you unkind I simply | G |
| loathe you though you are my | K |
| sister you beast cad coward cheat | L |
| bully liar | H |
| Well Say what's left for me then | I |
| But we won't go to your ugly music | C |
| Listen Ben will garden and dig | M |
| And Claire will finish her wondrous pictures | N |
| All flaming and splendid and big | M |
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| And I'll be a perfectly marvellous carpenter | H |
| and I'll make cupboards and benches | O |
| and tables and and baths and | D |
| nice wooden boxes for studs and | D |
| money | G |
| And you'll be jealous you pig | M |
Robert Graves
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