Domestic Scene Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD E F GHGHIJIJ F KLKLMNMN F OPOPQRQR S TRTRUVUV WXWYZDZDThe meal was o'er the lamp was lit | A |
The family sat in its glow | B |
The Mother never ceased to knit | A |
The Daughter never slacked to sew | B |
The Father read his evening news | C |
The Son was playing solitaire | D |
If peace a happy home could choose | C |
I'm sure you'd swear that it was there | D |
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BUT | E |
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The Mother | F |
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Ah me this hard lump in my breast | G |
Old Doctor Brown I went to see | H |
Because it don't give me no rest | G |
He fears it may malignant be | H |
To operate it might be well | I |
And keep the evil of awhile | J |
But oh the folks I dare not tell | I |
And so I sit and knit and smile | J |
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The Father | F |
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The mortgage on the house is due | K |
My bank account is overdrawn | L |
I'm at my wits end what to do | K |
I've plunged but now my hope is gone | L |
For coverage my brokers call | M |
But I'm so deeply in the red | N |
If ever I should lose my all | M |
I'll put a bullet in my head | N |
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The Daughter | F |
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To smile I do the best I can | O |
But it's so hard to act up gay | P |
My lover is a married man | O |
And now his child is on the way | P |
My plight I cannot long conceal | Q |
And though I bear their bitter blame | R |
Unto my dears I must reveal | Q |
My sin my sorrow and my shame | R |
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The Son | S |
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Being a teller in a Bank | T |
I'd no right in a blackjack game | R |
But for my ruin I must thank | T |
My folly for a floozie dame | R |
To face the Manager I quail | U |
If he should check my cash I'm sunk | V |
Before they throw me into gaol | U |
I guess I'd better do a bunk | V |
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So sat they in the Winter eve | W |
In sweet serenity becalmed | X |
So peaceful you could scarce believe | W |
They shared the torments of the damned | Y |
Yet there the Mother smiles and knits | Z |
The Daughter sews white underwear | D |
The Father reads and smokes and spits | Z |
While Sonny Boy plays solitaire | D |
Robert William Service
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