Aunt Jane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEFFDC GGHHIJ KKLLFF| When Aunt Jane died we hunted round | A |
| And money everywhere we found | A |
| How much I do not care to say | B |
| But no death duties will we pay | B |
| And Aunt Jane will be well content | C |
| We bilked the bloody Government | D |
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| While others spent she loved to save | E |
| But couldn't take it to her grave | E |
| While others save we love to spend | F |
| She hated us but in the end | F |
| Because she left no Testament | D |
| To us all her possessions went | C |
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| That is to say they did not find | G |
| A lawyer's Will of any kind | G |
| Yet there was one in her own hand | H |
| A Home for Ailing Cats she planned | H |
| Well you can understand my ire | I |
| Promptly I put it in the fire | J |
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| In misery she chose to die | K |
| Yet we will make her money fly | K |
| And as we mourn for poor Aunt Jane | L |
| The thought alleviates our pain | L |
| Perhaps her savings in the end | F |
| Gave her more joy than we who spend | F |
Robert William Service
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