Aunt Helen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEECCFGHGI| Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt | A |
| And lived in a small house near a fashionable square | B |
| Cared for by servants to the number of four | C |
| Now when she died there was silence in heaven | D |
| And silence at her end of the street | E |
| The shutters were drawn and the undertaker wiped his feet | E |
| He was aware that this sort of thing had occurred before | C |
| The dogs were handsomely provided for | C |
| But shortly afterwards the parrot died too | F |
| The Dresden clock continued ticking on the mantelpiece | G |
| And the footman sat upon the dining table | H |
| Holding the second housemaid on his knees | G |
| Who had always been so careful while her mistress lived | I |
T. S. Eliot
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