Jane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EEFFG BAHHI JJKKABB| My daughter Jane makes dresses | A |
| For beautiful Princesses | B |
| But though she's plain is Jane | C |
| Of needlework she's vain | C |
| And makes such pretty things | D |
| For relatives of Kings | D |
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| She reads the picture papers | E |
| Where Royalties cut capers | E |
| And often says to me | F |
| 'How wealthy they must be | F |
| That nearly every day | G |
| A new robe they can pay ' | - |
| - | |
| Says I 'If your Princesses | B |
| Could fabric pretty dresses | A |
| Though from a throne they stem | H |
| I would think more of them | H |
| Peeress and shopgirl are | I |
| To my mind on a par ' | - |
| - | |
| Says Jane 'But for their backing | J |
| I might be sewing sacking | J |
| Instead I work with joy | K |
| In exquisite employ | K |
| Embroidering rich dresses | A |
| For elegant Princesses | B |
| Damn social upsetters | B |
| Who criticise their betters ' | - |
Robert William Service
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