Best Way To Read A Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFFGG HIJJKKLM NNAAOOPP| curl him up upon my knee | A |
| Deep in a big arm chair where we | A |
| Can catch the warmth of blazing coals | B |
| And then let two contented souls | B |
| Melt into one old age and youth | C |
| Sharing adventure's marvelous truth | C |
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| I read a page and then we sit | D |
| And talk it over bit by bit | D |
| Just how the pirates looked and why | E |
| They flung a black flag to the sky | E |
| We pass no paragraph without | F |
| First knowing what it's all about | F |
| And when the author starts a fight | G |
| We join the forces that are right | G |
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| We're deep in Treasure Island and | H |
| From Spy Glass Hill we've viewed the land | I |
| Through thickets dense we've followed Jim | J |
| And shared the doubts that came to him | J |
| We've heard Cap Smollett arguing there | K |
| With Long John Silver gaunt and spare | K |
| And mastering our many fears | L |
| We've battled with those buccaneers | M |
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| Best way to read a book I've found | N |
| Is have a little boy around | N |
| And take him up upon your knee | A |
| Then talk about the tale till he | A |
| Lives it and feels it just as you | O |
| And shares the great adventure too | O |
| Books have a deep and lasting joy | P |
| For him who reads them to his boy | P |
Edgar Albert Guest
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