Bed Sitter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJKJLMLM NBNBOHOH MPMPNQNR| He 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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