Grown Up Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHIJDJD KLKLMDMD| Last year he wanted building blocks | A |
| And picture books and toys | B |
| A saddle horse that gayly rocks | A |
| And games for little boys | B |
| But now he's big and all that stuff | C |
| His whim no longer suits | D |
| He tells us that he's old enough | C |
| To ask for rubber boots | D |
| - | |
| Last year whatever Santa brought | E |
| Delighted him to own | F |
| He never gave his wants a thought | E |
| Nor made his wishes known | F |
| But now he says he wants a gun | G |
| The kind that really shoots | D |
| And I'm confronted with a son | G |
| Demanding rubber boots | D |
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| The baby that we used to know | H |
| Has somehow slipped away | I |
| And when or where he chanced to go | H |
| Not one of us can say | I |
| But here's a helter skelter lad | J |
| That to me nightly scoots | D |
| And boldly wishes that he had | J |
| A pair of rubber boots | D |
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| I'll bet old Santa Claus will sigh | K |
| When down our flue he comes | L |
| And seeks the babe that used to lie | K |
| And suck his tiny thumbs | L |
| And finds within that little bed | M |
| A grown up boy who hoots | D |
| At building blocks and wants instead | M |
| A pair of rubber boots | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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