Bread And Jam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFGGCC HHIIJJ| I wish I was a poet like the men that write in books | A |
| The poems that we have to learn on valleys hills an' brooks | A |
| I'd write of things that children like an' know an' understand | B |
| An' when the kids recited them the folks would call them grand | B |
| If I'd been born a Whittier instead of what I am | C |
| I'd write a poem now about a piece of bread an' jam | C |
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| I'd tell how hungry children get all afternoon in school | D |
| An' sittin' at attention just because it is the rule | D |
| An' lookin' every now an' then up to the clock to see | E |
| If that big hand an' little hand would ever get to three | E |
| I'd tell how children hurry home an' give the door a slam | C |
| An' ask their mothers can they have a piece of bread an' jam | C |
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| Some poets write of things to eat an' sing of dinners fine | F |
| An' praise the dishes they enjoy an' some folks sing of wine | F |
| But they've forgotten I suppose the days when they were small | G |
| An' hurried home from school to get the finest food of all | G |
| They don't remember any more how good it was to cram | C |
| Inside their hungry little selves a piece of bread an' jam | C |
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| I wish I was a Whittier a Stevenson or Burns | H |
| I wouldn't write of hills an' brooks or mossy banks or ferns | H |
| I wouldn't write of rolling seas or mountains towering high | I |
| But I would sing of chocolate cake an' good old apple pie | I |
| An' best of all the food there is beyond the slightest doubt | J |
| Is bread an' jam we always get as soon as school is out | J |
Edgar Albert Guest
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