His Room Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGI JKLKMBMB NONOPQPQ| His room is as it used to be | A |
| Before he went away | B |
| The walls still keep the pennants he | A |
| Brought home but yesterday | B |
| The picture of his baseball team | C |
| Still holds its favored spot | D |
| And oh it seems a dreadful dream | C |
| This age of shell and shot | D |
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| His golf clubs in the corner stand | E |
| His tennis racket too | F |
| That once the pressure of his hand | E |
| In times of laughter knew | F |
| Is in the place it long has kept | G |
| For us to look upon | H |
| The room is as it was except | G |
| The boy himself has gone | I |
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| The pictures of his girls are here | J |
| Still smiling as of yore | K |
| And everything that he held dear | L |
| Is treasured as before | K |
| Into his room his mother goes | M |
| As usual day by day | B |
| And cares for it although she knows | M |
| Our boy is far away | B |
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| We keep it as he left it when | N |
| He bade us all good bye | O |
| Though I confess that now and then | N |
| We view it with a sigh | O |
| For never night shall thrill with joy | P |
| Nor day be free from gloom | Q |
| Until once more our soldier boy | P |
| Shall occupy his room | Q |
Edgar Albert Guest
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