Her Terms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABCDEFDEFGHIIHJKL JKMLM NONPONQRKQRKSSIISTUB TUBBB| My wedded life | A |
| Must every pleasure bring | B |
| On scale extensive | C |
| If I'm your wife | A |
| I must have everything | B |
| That's most expensive | C |
| A lady's maid | D |
| My hair alone to do | E |
| I am not able | F |
| And I'm afraid | D |
| I've been accustomed to | E |
| A first rate table | F |
| These things one must consider when one marries | G |
| And everything I wear must come from Paris | H |
| Oh think of that | I |
| Oh think of that | I |
| I can't wear anything that's not from Paris | H |
| From top to toes | J |
| Quite Frenchified I am | K |
| If you examine | L |
| And then who knows | J |
| Perhaps some day a fam | K |
| Perhaps a famine | M |
| My argument's correct if you examine | L |
| What should we do if there should come a f famine | M |
| - | |
| Though in green pea | N |
| Yourself you needn't stint | O |
| In July sunny | N |
| In Januaree | P |
| It really costs a mint | O |
| A mint of money | N |
| No lamb for us | Q |
| House lamb at Christmas sells | R |
| At prices handsome | K |
| Asparagus | Q |
| In winter parallels | R |
| A Monarch's ransom | K |
| When purse to bread and butter barely reaches | S |
| What is your wife to do for hot house peaches | S |
| Ah tell me that | I |
| Ah tell me that | I |
| What IS your wife to do for hot house peaches | S |
| Your heart and hand | T |
| Though at my feet you lay | U |
| All others scorning | B |
| As matters stand | T |
| There's nothing now to say | U |
| Except good morning | B |
| Though virtue be a husband's best adorning | B |
| That won't pay rates and taxes so good morning | B |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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