Jimmy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDE FFGGAAHHE IIJJKKLLE MMEENNOOE K EEHHPPE| I NEVER knew him for he never grew | A |
| Up as so many strong little ones do | A |
| Just a year on the earth with his mother and then | B |
| God came and took Jimmy to heaven again | B |
| And 't was years after that when I moved on the street | C |
| And met Jimmy's mother so patient and sweet | C |
| And through her I got to know Jimmy so well | D |
| For morning and evening she 'd stop me to tell | D |
| About Jimmy | E |
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| His toys were all kept in his little play room | F |
| His dolls and his Teddy bear stayed in the gloom | F |
| And when Jimmy was two or would have been rather | G |
| Some soldiers of tin were brought home by his father | G |
| And the mother arranged them in battle line too | A |
| A fact that but few of her friends ever knew | A |
| In her mind's eye she pictured him sunny and gay | H |
| And often ceased work to romp with him and play | H |
| Play with Jimmy | E |
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| In this way I got to know Jimmy myself | I |
| Long after his toys had been put on the shelf | I |
| He 'd been to school and to college it seems | J |
| And now was the man of his dear mother's dreams | J |
| She 'd nursed him through measles and fevers and all | K |
| The ailments that everyone has when he's small | K |
| She'd lived with him just as though he had been spared | L |
| Played with him prayed with him worried and cared | L |
| For her Jimmy | E |
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| Wonderful too were the deeds he had done | M |
| Never had mother before such a son | M |
| Brave Never youth was so fearless as he | E |
| I 'm telling you now what she oft said to me | E |
| And clever and witty and patient and kind | N |
| With never a fault but then mothers are blind | N |
| And this mother really was telling the truth | O |
| For she had watched every step of his youth | O |
| Loving Jimmy | E |
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| The last words she spoke to me now I recall | K |
| The doctor had whispered 'There's no chance at all ' | - |
| And she knew it too but she smiled up at me | E |
| 'I 'm going ' she muttered 'my Jimmy to see | E |
| I know how he looks and I know what he'll say | H |
| For hasn't he lived with me here every day | H |
| Help father to bravely bear up under this | P |
| For he will be lonesome I know how he'll miss | P |
| Me and Jimmy | E |
Edgar Albert Guest
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