A Boy At Christmas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC BBDDEC FFGGCC BBCHICC| If I could have my wish to night it would not be for wealth or fame | A |
| It would not be for some delight that men who live in luxury claim | A |
| But it would be that I might rise at three or four a m to see | B |
| With eager happy boyish eyes my presents on the Christmas tree | B |
| Throughout this world there is no joy I know now I am growing gray | C |
| So rich as being just a boy a little boy on Christmas Day | C |
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| I'd like once more to stand and gaze enraptured on a tinseled tree | B |
| With eyes that know just how to blaze a heart still tuned to ecstasy | B |
| I'd like to feel the old delight the surging thrills within me come | D |
| To love a thing with all my might to grasp the pleasure of a drum | D |
| To know the meaning of a toy a meaning lost to minds blase | E |
| To be just once again a boy a little boy on Christmas Day | C |
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| I'd like to see a pair of skates the way they looked to me back then | F |
| Before I'd turned from boyhood's gates and marched into the world of men | F |
| I'd like to see a jackknife too with those same eager dancing eyes | G |
| That couldn't fault or blemish view I'd like to feel the same surprise | G |
| The pleasure free from all alloy that has forever passed away | C |
| When I was just a little boy and had my faith in Christmas Day | C |
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| Oh little laughing roguish lad the king that rules across the sea | B |
| Would give his scepter if he had such joy as now belongs to thee | B |
| And beards of gray would give their gold and all the honors they | C |
| possess | H |
| Once more within their grasp to hold thy present fee of happiness | I |
| Earth sends no greater surer joy as too soon thou as I shall say | C |
| Than that of him who is a boy a little boy on Christmas Day | C |
Edgar Albert Guest
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