Answering The Grumblers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGEED HHIIJJ KKLLAA MNAADO| When night time comes an' I can go | A |
| Back to the folks who love me so | A |
| An' see 'em smile an' hear 'em sing | B |
| An' feel their kisses then by jing | B |
| I vow this world is mighty fine | C |
| An' run upon a great design | C |
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| I trudge away at break o' day | D |
| An' hear the grumblers round me say | D |
| This world ain't what it ought to be | E |
| With so much care an' misery | E |
| An' so much work for all to do | F |
| An' little comfort when you're through | F |
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| But all the time I'm thinkin' of | G |
| The faces of the ones I love | G |
| An' every minute I can see | E |
| Their bright eyes laughing right at me | E |
| An' I can almost hear 'em say | D |
| Come home come home an' we will play ' | - |
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| An' sometimes when the daily grind | H |
| Sends bitter thoughts into my mind | H |
| An' I get thinkin' that of care | I |
| I draw far more than is my share | I |
| I hear 'em hum their merry song | J |
| An' then I know such thoughts are wrong | J |
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| I never doubt this world is good | K |
| I couldn't doubt it if I would | K |
| For all the trouble that I meet | L |
| I gather compensation sweet | L |
| When night time comes an' I can go | A |
| Back to the folks who love me so | A |
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| It ain't no use for grumblers here | M |
| To tell me that this life's severe | N |
| To say this world's a vale of woe | A |
| For I've got proof that it ain't so | A |
| When wearily I trudge away | D |
| They're whisperin' whisperin' 'Soon we'll | O |
| play ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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