Two Husbands Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBB CCA AAA DDA AAA EEA FFF GGA| Unpenitent I grieve to state | A |
| Two good men stood by heaven's gate | A |
| Saint Peter coming to await | A |
| The stopped the Keeper of the Keys | B |
| Saying quot What suppliants are these | B |
| Who wait me not on bended knees | B |
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| quot To get my heavenly Okay | C |
| A man should have been used to pray | C |
| Or suffered in some grievous way quot | A |
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| quot Oh I have suffered quot cried the first | A |
| quot Of wives I had the wicked worst | A |
| Who made my life a plague accurst | A |
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| quot Such martyrdom no tongue can tell | D |
| In mercy's name it is not well | D |
| To doom me to another hell quot | A |
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| Saint Peter said quot I comprehend | A |
| But tribulations have their end | A |
| The gate is open go my friend quot | A |
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| Then said the second quot What of me | E |
| More I deserve to pass than he | E |
| For I've been wedded twice you see quot | A |
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| Saint Peter looked at him a while | F |
| And then he answered with a smile | F |
| quot Your application I will file | F |
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| quot Yet twice in double yoke you've driven | G |
| Though sinners with our Saints we leaven | G |
| We don't take IMBECILES in heaven quot | A |
Robert William Service
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