Fixing The Shame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFG HCICJKCK ILMLNODO PQRQDLS TIU VWXW| They put him in jail for the thing he'd done | A |
| For that was the law they'd made | B |
| They turned the key on his youth till he | C |
| The price of his crime had paid | B |
| And the wise judge said as he sentenced him | D |
| And spoke from the facts he knew | E |
| 'The deed was yours and the wide outdoors | F |
| No longer belongs to you ' | G |
| - | |
| Oh it isn't so long ago there went | H |
| A toddling lad of three | C |
| At the close of day for a bit of play | I |
| Astride of his father's knee | C |
| And the father scowled and sent him off | J |
| 'Go play with the lads outside | K |
| Don't bother me with your pranks ' said he | C |
| And he sneered when the youngster cried | K |
| - | |
| And the father went to his work all day | I |
| And went to his bed at night | L |
| And he gave no heed to the baby's need | M |
| Nor shared in the lad's delight | L |
| He never knew who his playmates were | N |
| Nor followed him off to school | O |
| But in manner grim he punished him | D |
| Whenever he broke the rule | O |
| - | |
| Midnight came not so long ago | P |
| And the youngster was not in bed | Q |
| But the father slept while the mother kept | R |
| The watch that all mothers dread | Q |
| And whenever the mother spoke of him | D |
| Through the long black hours of night | L |
| As the cold wind howled the father growled | S |
| 'Don't worry the boy's all right ' | - |
| - | |
| Society said at the end of things | T |
| 'The doer of crime must pay | I |
| In a grated cell we'll make him dwell | U |
| Shut in from the light of day ' | - |
| But I like to think that the Judge on High | V |
| Who rights all our earthly wrongs | W |
| At another time will fix that crime | X |
| Exactly where it belongs | W |
Edgar Albert Guest
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