Joey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFGG HIHIJJ DKDKGG JJ| I thought I would go daft when Joey died | A |
| He was my first and wise beyond his years | B |
| For nigh a hundred nights I cried and cried | A |
| Until my weary eyes burned up my tears | C |
| Willie and Rosie tried to comfort me | D |
| A woeful weeping family were we | D |
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| I was a widow with no friends at all | E |
| Ironing men's shirts to buy my kiddies grub | F |
| And then one day a lawyer came to call | E |
| Me with my arms deep in the washing tub | F |
| The gentleman who ran poor Joey down | G |
| Was willing to give us a thousand poun' | G |
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| What a godsend It meant goodbye to care | H |
| The fear of being dumped out on the street | I |
| Rosie and Willie could have wool to wear | H |
| And more than bread and margerine to eat | I |
| To Joey's broken little legs we owe | J |
| Our rescue from a fate of want and woe | J |
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| How happily he hurried home to me | D |
| Bringing a new baked crisp brown loaf of bread | K |
| The headlights of the car he did not see | D |
| And when help came they thought that he was dead | K |
| He stared with wonder from a face so wan | G |
| A long last look and he was gone was gone | G |
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| We've comfort now and yet it hurts to know | J |
| We owe our joy to little laughing Joe | J |
Robert Service
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