Room 6: The Little Workgirl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHDHD AIJIFDFD KLKLMDMD ANANFDFD FJFJKDOD JPJPQAQAThree gentlemen live close beside me | A |
A painter of pictures bizarre | B |
A poet whose virtues might guide me | A |
A singer who plays the guitar | B |
And there on my lintel is Cupid | C |
I leave my door open and yet | D |
These gentlemen aren't they stupid | E |
They never make love to Babette | D |
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I go to the shop every morning | F |
I work with my needle and thread | G |
Silk satin and velvet adorning | F |
Then luncheon on coffee and bread | G |
Then sewing and sewing till seven | H |
Or else if the order I get | D |
I toil and I toil till eleven | H |
And such is the day of Babette | D |
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It doesn't seem cheerful I fancy | A |
The wage is unthinkably small | I |
And yet there is one thing I can say | J |
I keep a bright face through it all | I |
I chaff though my head may be aching | F |
I sing a gay song to forget | D |
I laugh though my heart may be breaking | F |
It's all in the life of Babette | D |
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That gown O my lady of leisure | K |
You begged to be finished in haste | L |
It gives you an exquisite pleasure | K |
Your lovers remark on its taste | L |
Yet oh the poor little white faces | M |
The tense midnight toil and the fret | D |
I fear that the foam of its laces | M |
Is salt with the tears of Babette | D |
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It takes a brave heart to be cheery | A |
With no gleam of hope in the sky | N |
The future's so utterly dreary | A |
I'm laughing in case I should cry | N |
And if where the gay lights are glowing | F |
I dine with a man I have met | D |
And snatch a bright moment who's going | F |
To blame a poor little Babette | D |
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And you Friend beyond all the telling | F |
Although you're an ocean away | J |
Your pictures they tell me are selling | F |
You're married and settled they say | J |
Such happiness one wouldn't barter | K |
Yet oh do you never regret | D |
The Springtide the roses Montmartre | O |
Youth poverty love and Babette | D |
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That blond haired chap across the way | J |
With sunny smile and voice so mellow | P |
He sings in some cheap cabaret | J |
Yet what a gay and charming fellow | P |
His breath with garlic may be strong | Q |
What matters it his laugh is jolly | A |
His day he gives to sleep and song | Q |
His night's made up of song and folly | A |
Robert William Service
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