No Sunday Chicken Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFEFGG HIHIJJ KLMNOO PIPIQQI could have sold him up because | A |
His rent was long past due | B |
And Grimes my lawyer said it was | C |
The proper thing to do | B |
But how could I be so inhuman | D |
And me a gentle woman | D |
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Yet I am poor as chapel mouse | E |
Pinching to make ends meet | F |
And have to let my little house | E |
To buy enough to eat | F |
Why even now to keep agoing | G |
I have to take in sewing | G |
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Sylvester is a widowed man | H |
Clerk in a hardware store | I |
I guess he does the best he can | H |
To feed his kiddies four | I |
It sure is hard don't think it funny | J |
I've lately loaned him money | J |
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I want to wipe away a tear | K |
Even to just suppose | L |
Some monster of an auctioneer | M |
Might sell his sticks and clothes | N |
I'd rather want for bread and butter | O |
Than see them in the gutter | O |
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A silly soft old thing am I | P |
But oh them kiddies four | I |
I guess I'll make a raisin pie | P |
And leave it at their door | I |
Some Sunday dears you'll share my dream | Q |
Fried chicken and ice cream | Q |
Robert Service
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