Bed Sitter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJKJLMLM NBNBOHOH MPMPNQNRHe stared at me with sad hurt eyes | A |
That drab untidy man | B |
And though my clients I despise | A |
I do the best I can | B |
To comfort them with cheerful chat | C |
Quite comme il faut of course | D |
And furnish evidence so that | C |
Their wives may claim divorce | D |
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But as this chap sobbed out his woes | E |
I thought How it's a shame | F |
His wife's a bitch and so he goes | E |
And takes himself the blame | F |
And me behaving like a heel | G |
To earn a filthy fee | H |
Said I You've had a dirty deal | G |
What of yourself said he | H |
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And so I told him how I was | I |
A widow of the war | J |
And doing what I did because | K |
Two sons I struggled for | J |
As I sat knitting through the night | L |
He eyed me from the bed | M |
And in the rosy morning light | L |
Impulsively he said | M |
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Through in this sordid game we play | N |
To cheat the law we plan | B |
i do believe you when you say | N |
You hold aloof from man | B |
Unto the dead you have been true | O |
And on the day I'm free | H |
To prove how I have faith in you | O |
Please will you marry me | H |
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That's how it was Now we are wed | M |
And life's a list of joys | P |
The old unhappy past is dead | M |
He's father to my boys | P |
And I have told him just to day | N |
Though forty I confess | Q |
A little sister's on the way | N |
To crown our happiness | R |
Robert William Service
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