A Boy And His Dad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFEEGG HHIIJJKL EEMMNNAA| A boy and his dad on a fishing trip | A |
| There is a glorious fellowship | A |
| Father and son and the open sky | B |
| And the white clouds lazily drifting by | B |
| And the laughing stream as it runs along | C |
| With the clicking reel like a martial song | C |
| And the father teaching the youngster gay | D |
| How to land a fish in the sportsman's way | D |
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| I fancy I hear them talking there | E |
| In an open boat and speech is fair | E |
| And the boy is learning the ways of men | F |
| From the finest man in his youthful ken | F |
| Kings to youngster cannot compare | E |
| With the gentle father who's with him there | E |
| And the greatest mind of the human race | G |
| Not for one minute could take his place | G |
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| Which is happier man or boy | H |
| The soul of the father is steeped in joy | H |
| For he's finding out to his heart's delight | I |
| That his son is fit for the future fight | I |
| He is learning the glorious depths of him | J |
| And the thoughts he thinks and his every whim | J |
| And he shall discover when night comes on | K |
| How close he has grown to his little son | L |
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| Oh I envy them as I see them there | E |
| Under the sky in the open air | E |
| For out of the the old old long ago | M |
| Come the summer days that I used to know | M |
| When I learned life's truth from my father's lips | N |
| As I shared the joy of his fishing trips | N |
| A boy and his dad on a fishing trip | A |
| Builders of life's companionship | A |
Edgar Albert Guest
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