Literary Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGDD HHIJCCDD KKLLMMDD| HUSH little ones don't make a noise | A |
| Pick up your dolls and pick up your toys | A |
| Pick up your Teddy Bear Johnny now see | B |
| How quiet a youngster tonight you can be | B |
| Daddy will wash up the dishes while you | C |
| Quietly sit there to wait till he 's through | C |
| Softly about we must tread on tip toe | D |
| Mother is writing a paper on Poe | D |
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| What is that noise It's the scratch of her pen | E |
| Mother has locked herself into my den | E |
| Gone there to study to ponder and write | F |
| And we must give up all our laughter tonight | F |
| Hush there Don't giggle Be still while I sweep | G |
| And see just how quiet you children can keep | G |
| Hey there you Johnny don't romp about so | D |
| Mother is writing a paper on Poe | D |
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| Come now you two year old father will try | H |
| To put on your nightie and rock you bye bye | H |
| And Johnny you sit on the floor and take off | I |
| Your shoes and your stockings Look out don't you cough | J |
| Poor kids you've no mother tonight to undress you | C |
| To sing you to sleep and to love and caress you | C |
| Just an awkward old daddy whose fingers are slow | D |
| But then mother's writing a paper on Poe | D |
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| Oh literature is a wonderful thing | K |
| Of joy and delight a perennial Spring | K |
| But gee it is tough on the kids and their dad | L |
| Who think that the evening 's the time to be glad | L |
| And sometimes I think that the art is pernicious | M |
| And often I wish mother wasn't ambitious | M |
| Tonight as I sit here and rock to and fro | D |
| All alone I am cursing that paper on Poe | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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