The Mare's Nest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFGG HIHIJJ GKGKLL MNMODD KKKKKK PQPQGG RNROST| Jane Austen Beecher Stowe de Rouse | A |
| Was good beyond all earthly need | B |
| But on the other hand her spouse | A |
| Was very very bad indeed | B |
| He smoked cigars called churches slow | C |
| And raced but this she did not know | C |
| - | |
| For Belial Machiavelli kept | D |
| The little fact a secret and | E |
| Though o'er his minor sins she wept | D |
| Jane Austen did not understand | F |
| That Lilly thirteen two and bay | G |
| Absorbed one half her husband's pay | G |
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| She was so good she made hime worse | H |
| Some women are like this I think | I |
| He taught her parrot how to curse | H |
| Her Assam monkey how to drink | I |
| He vexed her righteous soul until | J |
| She went up and he went down hill | J |
| - | |
| Then came the crisis strange to say | G |
| Which turned a good wife to a better | K |
| A telegraphic peon one day | G |
| Brought her now had it been a letter | K |
| For Belial Machiavelli I | L |
| Know Jane would just have let it lie | L |
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| But 'twas a telegram instead | M |
| Marked quot urgent quot and her duty plain | N |
| To open it Jane Austen read | M |
| quot Your Lilly's got a cough again | O |
| Can't understand why she is kept | D |
| At your expense quot Jane Austen wept | D |
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| It was a misdirected wire | K |
| Her husband was at Shaitanpore | K |
| She spread her anger hot as fire | K |
| Through six thin foreign sheets or more | K |
| Sent off that letter wrote another | K |
| To her solicitor and mother | K |
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| Then Belial Machiavelli saw | P |
| Her error and I trust his own | Q |
| Wired to the minion of the Law | P |
| And traveled wifeward not alone | Q |
| For Lilly thirteen two and bay | G |
| Came in a horse box all the way | G |
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| There was a scene a weep or two | R |
| With many kisses Austen Jane | N |
| Rode Lilly all the season through | R |
| And never opened wires again | O |
| She races now with Belial This | S |
| Is very sad but so it is | T |
Rudyard Kipling
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