Mother's Job Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IIJJKKLL| ke a kite | A |
| Or wrestle on the floor and play | B |
| Those rough and tumble games but say | B |
| Just let him get an ache or pain | C |
| And start to whimper and complain | C |
| And from my side he'll quickly flee | D |
| To clamber on his mother's knee | D |
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| I'm good enough to be his horse | E |
| And race with him along the course | E |
| I'm just the friend he wants each time | F |
| There is a tree he'd like to climb | F |
| And I'm the pal he's eager for | G |
| When we approach a candy store | G |
| But for his mother straight he makes | H |
| Whene'er his little stomach aches | H |
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| He likes when he is feeling well | I |
| The kind of stories that I tell | I |
| And I'm his comrade and his chum | J |
| And I must march behind his drum | J |
| To me through thick and thin he'll stick | K |
| Unless he happens to be sick | K |
| In which event with me he's through | L |
| Only his mother then will do | L |
Edgar Albert Guest
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