A Successful Dad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDCD EFGFFHFH DIDICFCF FFFFJDJD| OTHERS may laugh at my feeble endeavor | A |
| To capture life's prizes and others may sneer | B |
| The whole world may loudly declare I shall never | A |
| Be worthy the gunpowder to blow me from here | C |
| It may be I 'm punk as a parlor reciter | C |
| And when I begin grown ups take to the woods | D |
| But that baby of mine I can always delight her | C |
| She vows I 'm a wonder she swears I 'm the goods | D |
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| It may be I can't keep a tune for a minute | E |
| It may be my voice wanders far from the key | F |
| It may be the nightingale lark and the linnet | G |
| As songsters have quite a wide margin on me | F |
| Caruso and others may take down the money | F |
| For singing their ditties to high brows but I | H |
| Have one little audience cheerful and sunny | F |
| Who 'd rather hear me than the music you buy | H |
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| She thinks I 'm a corker a lalapaloosa | D |
| She nightly applauds every stunt that I do | I |
| She 'd rather hear me than your John Philip Sousa | D |
| To her the old nonsense forever is new | I |
| That baby of mine thinks I 'm great in whatever | C |
| I tackle the moment we've finished our tea | F |
| And though others may laugh at my feeble endeavor | C |
| The praise of my little one satisfies me | F |
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| And so though the big world goes by me unheeding | F |
| And never a grown up takes notice of me | F |
| Though into my work failure others are reading | F |
| I 'm still a success to the babe on my knee | F |
| When worn out and weary my long day is ended | J |
| And homeward I turn I forget my distress | D |
| For I know that my baby still thinks I am splendid | J |
| To her anyhow I 'm a corking success | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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