Childless Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFCC GGHHCCIIJJF KKLLMMFFJJD KKNNCCOOPPQQ GGRRLLHHSSTT| If certain folks that I know well | A |
| Should come to me their woes to tell | A |
| I'd read the sorrow in their faces | B |
| And I could analyze their cases | B |
| I watch some couples day by day | C |
| Go madly on their selfish way | C |
| Forever seeking happiness | D |
| And always finding something less | E |
| If she whose face is fair to see | F |
| Yet lacks one charm that there should be | F |
| Should open wide her heart to day | C |
| I think I know what she would say | C |
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| She'd tell me that his love seems cold | G |
| And not the love she knew of old | G |
| That for the home they've built to share | H |
| No longer does her husband care | H |
| That he seems happier away | C |
| Than by her side and every day | C |
| That passes leaves them more apart | I |
| And then perhaps her tears would start | I |
| And in a softened voice she'd add | J |
| 'Sometimes I wonder if we had | J |
| A baby now to love if he | F |
| Would find so many faults in me ' | - |
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| And if he came to tell his woe | K |
| Just what he'd say to me I know | K |
| 'There's something dismal in the place | L |
| That always stares me in the face | L |
| I love her She is good and sweet | M |
| But still my joy is incomplete | M |
| And then it seems to me that she | F |
| Can only see the faults in me | F |
| I wonder sometimes if we had | J |
| A little girl or little lad | J |
| If life with all its fret and fuss | D |
| Would then seem so monotonous ' | - |
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| And what I'd say to them I know | K |
| I'd bid them straightway forth to go | K |
| And find that child and take him in | N |
| And start the joy of life to win | N |
| You foolish hungry souls I'd say | C |
| You're living in a selfish way | C |
| A baby's arms stretched out to you | O |
| Will give you something real to do | O |
| And though God has not sent one down | P |
| To you within this very town | P |
| Somewhere a little baby lies | Q |
| That would bring gladness to your eyes | Q |
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| You cannot live this life for gold | G |
| Or selfish joys As you grow old | G |
| You'll find that comfort only springs | R |
| From living for the living things | R |
| And home must be a barren place | L |
| That never knows a baby's face | L |
| Take in a child that needs your care | H |
| Give him your name and let him share | H |
| Your happiness and you will own | S |
| More joy than you have ever known | S |
| And what is more you'll come to feel | T |
| That you are doing something real | T |
Edgar Albert Guest
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