Three Wives Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB BBBBCD BEBEAA FGHGII| Said Jones I'm glad my wife's not clever | A |
| Her intellect is second rate | B |
| If she was witty she would never | A |
| Give me a chance to scintillate | B |
| But cap my humorous endeavour | A |
| And make me seem as addle pate | B |
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| Said Smith I'm glad my wife's no beauty | B |
| For if a siren's charm she had | B |
| And stinted her domestic duty | B |
| I fear that she would drive me mad | B |
| For I am one of those sad fellows | C |
| Who are unreasonably jealous | D |
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| Said Brown I know my wife's not witty | B |
| Nor is she very long on looks | E |
| She's neither humorous nor pretty | B |
| But oh how she divinely cooks | E |
| You guys must come some night to dinner | A |
| You'll see my little girl's a winner | A |
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| So it's important in our lives | F |
| Exaggerating more or less | G |
| To be content with our wives | H |
| And prize the virtues they possess | G |
| And with dispraise to turn one's back | I |
| On all the qualities they lack | I |
Robert Service
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