No Sunday Chicken Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFEFGG HIHIJJ KLMNOO PIPIQQ| I could have sold him up because | A |
| His rent was long past due | B |
| And Grimes my lawyer said it was | C |
| The proper thing to do | B |
| But how could I be so inhuman | D |
| And me a gentle woman | D |
| - | |
| Yet I am poor as chapel mouse | E |
| Pinching to make ends meet | F |
| And have to let my little house | E |
| To buy enough to eat | F |
| Why even now to keep agoing | G |
| I have to take in sewing | G |
| - | |
| Sylvester is a widowed man | H |
| Clerk in a hardware store | I |
| I guess he does the best he can | H |
| To feed his kiddies four | I |
| It sure is hard don't think it funny | J |
| I've lately loaned him money | J |
| - | |
| I want to wipe away a tear | K |
| Even to just suppose | L |
| Some monster of an auctioneer | M |
| Might sell his sticks and clothes | N |
| I'd rather want for bread and butter | O |
| Than see them in the gutter | O |
| - | |
| A silly soft old thing am I | P |
| But oh them kiddies four | I |
| I guess I'll make a raisin pie | P |
| And leave it at their door | I |
| Some Sunday dears you'll share my dream | Q |
| Fried chicken and ice cream | Q |
Robert William Service
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