The First Tooth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEFFGGHH AIJKKLLMNOOPQAJRRSST T| SISTER | A |
| Through the house what busy joy | B |
| Just because the infant boy | B |
| Has a tiny tooth to show | C |
| I have got a double row | C |
| All as white and all as small | D |
| Yet no one cares for mine at all | D |
| He can say but half a word | E |
| Yet that single sound's preferred | E |
| To all the words that I can say | F |
| In the longest summer day | F |
| He cannot walk yet if he put | G |
| With mimic motion out his foot | G |
| As if he thought he were advancing | H |
| It's prized more than my best dancing | H |
| - | |
| - | |
| BROTHER | A |
| Sister I know you jesting are | I |
| Yet O of jealousy beware | J |
| If the smallest seed should be | K |
| In your mind of jealousy | K |
| It will spring and it will shoot | L |
| Till it bear the baneful fruit | L |
| I remember you my dear | M |
| Young as is this infant here | N |
| There was not a tooth of those | O |
| Your pretty even ivory rows | O |
| But as anxiously was watched | P |
| Till it burst its shell new hatched | Q |
| As if it a Phoenix were | A |
| Or some other wonder rare | J |
| So when you began to walk | R |
| So when you began to talk | R |
| As now the same encomiums past | S |
| 'Tis not fitting this should last | S |
| Longer than our infant days | T |
| A child is fed with milk and praise | T |
Charles Lamb
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