Ideal Husband To His Wife, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIH JKLKMNONPHIH QRSRTUDVPWIW| We've lived for forty years dear wife | A |
| And walked together side by side | B |
| And you to day are just as dear | C |
| As when you were my bride | B |
| I've tried to make life glad for you | D |
| One long sweet honeymoon of joy | E |
| A dream of marital content | F |
| Without the least alloy | E |
| I've smoothed all boulders from our path | G |
| That we in peace might toil along | H |
| By always hastening to admit | I |
| That I was right and you were wrong | H |
| - | |
| No mad diversity of creed | J |
| Has ever sundered me from thee | K |
| For I permit you evermore | L |
| To borrow your ideas of me | K |
| And thus it is through weal or woe | M |
| Our love forevermore endures | N |
| For I permit that you should take | O |
| My views and creeds and make them yours | N |
| And thus I let you have my way | P |
| And thus in peace we toil along | H |
| For I am willing to admit | I |
| That I am right and you are wrong | H |
| - | |
| And when our matrimonial skiff | Q |
| Strikes snags in love's meandering stream | R |
| I lift our shallop from the rocks | S |
| And float as in a placid dream | R |
| And well I know our marriage bliss | T |
| While life shall last will never cease | U |
| For I shall always let thee do | D |
| In generous love just what I please | V |
| Peace comes and discord flies away | P |
| Love's bright day follows hatred's night | W |
| For I am ready to admit | I |
| That you are wrong and I am right | W |
Sam Walter Foss
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