Becoming A Dad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDAEEFF GGAAHHIIJJKK LLMMIIBBNNII OOPPQQRRSSTT UUVWX AAJJYOld women say that men don't know | A |
The pain through which all mothers go | A |
And maybe that is true and yet | B |
I vow I never shall forget | B |
The night he came I suffered too | C |
Those bleak and dreary long hours through | C |
I paced the floor and mopped my brow | D |
And waited for his glad wee ow | A |
I went upstairs and then came down | E |
Because I saw the doctor frown | E |
And knew beyond the slightest doubt | F |
He wished to goodness I'd clear out | F |
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I walked into the yard for air | G |
And back again to hear her there | G |
And met the nurse as calm as though | A |
My world was not in deepest woe | A |
And when I questioned seeking speech | H |
Of consolation that would reach | H |
Into my soul and strengthen me | I |
For dreary hours that were to be | I |
'Progressing nicely ' that was all | J |
She said and tip toed down the hall | J |
'Progressing nicely ' nothing more | K |
And left me there to pace the floor | K |
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And once the nurse came out in haste | L |
For something that had been misplaced | L |
And I that had been growing bold | M |
Then felt my blood grow icy cold | M |
And fear's stern chill swept over me | I |
I stood and watched and tried to see | I |
Just what it was she came to get | B |
I haven't learned that secret yet | B |
I half believe that nurse in white | N |
Was adding fuel to my fright | N |
And taking an unholy glee | I |
From time to time in torturing me | I |
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Then silence To her room I crept | O |
And was informed the doctor slept | O |
The doctor slept Oh vicious thought | P |
While she at death's door bravely fought | P |
And suffered untold anguish deep | Q |
The doctor lulled himself to sleep | Q |
I looked and saw him stretched out flat | R |
And could have killed the man for that | R |
Then morning broke and oh the joy | S |
With dawn there came to us our boy | S |
And in a glorious little while | T |
I went in there and saw her smile | T |
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I must have looked a human wreck | U |
My collar wilted at the neck | U |
My hair awry my features drawn | V |
With all the suffering I had borne | W |
She looked at me and softly said | X |
'If I were you I'd go to bed ' | - |
Hers was the bitterer part I know | A |
She traveled through the vale of woe | A |
But now when women folks recall | J |
The pain and anguish of it all | J |
I answer them in manner sad | Y |
'It's no cinch to become a dad ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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