Mother's Glasses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEF CC GGFFCC HHIICC| I've told about the times that Ma can't find her pocketbook | A |
| And how we have to hustle round for it to help her look | A |
| But there's another care we know that often comes our way | B |
| I guess it happens easily a dozen times a day | B |
| It starts when first the postman through the door a letter passes | C |
| And Ma says 'Goodness gracious me Wherever are my glasses ' | D |
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| We hunt 'em on the mantelpiece an' by the kitchen sink | E |
| Until Ma says 'Now children stop an' give me time to think | E |
| Just when it was I used 'em last an' just exactly where | F |
| Yes now I know the dining room I'm sure yu'll find 'em there ' | - |
| We even look behind the clock we busy boys n' lasses | C |
| Until somebody runs across Ma's missing pair of lasses | C |
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| We've found 'em in the Bible an' we've found 'em in the flour | G |
| We've found 'em in the sugar bowl an' once we looked an hour | G |
| Before we came across 'em in the padding of her chair | F |
| An' many a time we've found 'em in the topknot of her hair | F |
| It's a search that ruins order an' the home completely wrecks | C |
| For there's no place where you may not find poor Ma's elusive specs | C |
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| But we're mighty glad I tell you that the duty's ours to do | H |
| An' we hope to hunt those glasses till our time of life is through | H |
| It's a little bit of service that is joyous in its thrill | I |
| It's a task that calls us daily an' we hope it always will | I |
| Rich or poor the saddest mortals of all the joyless masses | C |
| Are the ones who have no mother dear to lose her reading glasses | C |
Edgar Albert Guest
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