Two Husbands Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBB CCC DDD EEE DDD FFF GGG HHH| Unpenitent I grieve to state | A |
| Two good men stood by heaven's gate | A |
| Saint Peter coming to await | A |
| The stopped the Keeper of the Keys | B |
| Saying What suppliants are these | B |
| Who wait me not on bended knees | B |
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| To get my heavenly Okay | C |
| A man should have been used to pray | C |
| Or suffered in some grievous way | C |
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| Oh I have suffered cried the first | D |
| Of wives I had the wicked worst | D |
| Who made my life a plague accurst | D |
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| Such martyrdom no tongue can tell | E |
| In mercy's name it is not well | E |
| To doom me to another hell | E |
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| Saint Peter said I comprehend | D |
| But tribulations have their end | D |
| The gate is open go my friend | D |
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| Then said the second What of me | F |
| More I deserve to pass than he | F |
| For I've been wedded twice you see | F |
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| Saint Peter looked at him a while | G |
| And then he answered with a smile | G |
| Your application I will file | G |
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| Yet twice in double yoke you've driven | H |
| Though sinners with our Saints we leaven | H |
| We don't take IMBECILES in heaven | H |
Robert Service
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