It's A Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCD EEFFC GGHHC IIJJC| ours he spends to help the one who's fighting hard for breath | A |
| He cannot call his time his own nor share in others' fun | B |
| His duties claim him through the night when others' work is done | B |
| And yet the doctor seems to be God's messenger of joy | C |
| Appointed to announce this news of gladness 'It's a boy ' | D |
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| In many ways unpleasant is the doctor's round of cares | E |
| I should not like to have to bear the burdens that he bears | E |
| His eyes must look on horrors grim unmoved he must remain | F |
| Emotion he must master if he hopes to conquer pain | F |
| Yet to his lot this duty falls his voice he must employ | C |
| To speak to man the happiest phrase that's sounded 'It's a boy ' | - |
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| I wish 'twere given me to speak a message half so glad | G |
| As that the doctor brings unto the fear distracted dad | G |
| I wish that simple words of mine could change the skies to blue | H |
| And lift the care from troubled hearts as those he utters do | H |
| I wish that I could banish all the thoughts that man annoy | C |
| And cheer him as the doctor does who whispers 'It's a boy ' | - |
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| Whoever through the hours of night has stood outside her door | I |
| And wondered if she'd smile again whoe'er has paced the floor | I |
| And lived those years of fearful thoughts and then been swept from woe | J |
| Up to the topmost height of bliss that's given man to know | J |
| Will tell you there's no phrase so sweet so charged with human joy | C |
| As that the doctor brings from God that message 'It's a boy ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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