Jane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EEFFG BAHHI JJKKABBMy daughter Jane makes dresses | A |
For beautiful Princesses | B |
But though she's plain is Jane | C |
Of needlework she's vain | C |
And makes such pretty things | D |
For relatives of Kings | D |
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She reads the picture papers | E |
Where Royalties cut capers | E |
And often says to me | F |
'How wealthy they must be | F |
That nearly every day | G |
A new robe they can pay ' | - |
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Says I 'If your Princesses | B |
Could fabric pretty dresses | A |
Though from a throne they stem | H |
I would think more of them | H |
Peeress and shopgirl are | I |
To my mind on a par ' | - |
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Says Jane 'But for their backing | J |
I might be sewing sacking | J |
Instead I work with joy | K |
In exquisite employ | K |
Embroidering rich dresses | A |
For elegant Princesses | B |
Damn social upsetters | B |
Who criticise their betters ' | - |
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