My Wife Is A Most Knowing Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFA GHDHI JK A D EHJLML A MNOOPOMO A QRSRAOOOTA| My wife is a most knowing woman | A |
| She always is finding me out | B |
| She never will hear explanations | C |
| But instantly puts me to rout | B |
| There's no use to try and deceive her | D |
| If out with my friends night or day | E |
| In a most inconceivable manner | D |
| She tells where I've been right away | E |
| She says that I'm 'mean' and 'inhuman ' | F |
| Oh My wife is a most knowing woman | A |
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| She would've been hung up for witchcraft | G |
| If she had lived sooner I know | H |
| There's no hiding anything from her | D |
| She knows what I do where I go | H |
| And if I come in after midnight | I |
| And say 'I have been to the lodge ' | - |
| Oh she says while she flies in a fury | J |
| 'Now don't think to play such a dodge | K |
| It's all very fine but won't do man ' | - |
| Oh my wife is a most knowing woman | A |
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| Not often I go out to dinner | D |
| And come home a little 'so so ' | - |
| I try to creep up through the hall way | E |
| As still as a mouse on tip toe | H |
| She's sure to be waiting up for me | J |
| And then comes a nice little scene | L |
| 'What you tell me you're sober you wretch you | M |
| Now don't think that I am so green | L |
| My life is quite worn out with you man ' | - |
| Oh my wife is a most knowing woman | A |
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| She knows me much better than I do | M |
| Her eyes are like those of a lynx | N |
| Though how she discovers my secrets | O |
| Is a riddle would puzzle a sphynx | O |
| On fair days when we go out walking | P |
| If ladies look at me askance | O |
| In the most harmless way I assure you | M |
| My wife gives me oh such a glance | O |
| And says 'all these insults you'll rue man ' | - |
| Oh my wife is a most knowing woman | A |
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| Yes I must give all of my friends up | Q |
| If I would live happy and quiet | R |
| One might as well be 'neath a tombstone | S |
| As live in confusion and riot | R |
| This life we all know is a short one | A |
| While some tongues are long heaven knows | O |
| And a miserable life is a husband's | O |
| Who numbers his wife with his foes | O |
| I'll stay at home now like a true man | T |
| Oh my wife is a most knowing woman | A |
Stephen C. Foster
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