Mothers' Excuses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEFGHGHBIBDJJJ KLMNOPQPDBKBRNFLMJSJ| Mother for me made excuses | A |
| When I was a little lad | B |
| Found some reason for my conduct | C |
| When it had been very bad | B |
| Blamed it on a recent illness | D |
| Or my nervousness and told | E |
| Father to be easy with me | F |
| Every time he had to scold | E |
| And I knew as well as any | F |
| Roguish healthy lad of ten | G |
| Mother really wasn't telling | H |
| Truthful things to father then | G |
| I knew I deserved the whipping | H |
| Knew that I'd been very bad | B |
| Knew that mother knew it also | I |
| When she intervened with dad | B |
| I knew that my recent illness | D |
| Hadn't anything to do | J |
| With the mischief I'd been up to | J |
| And I knew that mother knew | J |
| But remembering my fever | K |
| And my nervous temperament | L |
| Father put away the shingle | M |
| And postponed the sad event | N |
| Now his mother when I threaten | O |
| Punishment for this and that | P |
| Calls to mind the dreary night hours | Q |
| When beside his bed we sat | P |
| Comes and tells me that he's nervous | D |
| That's the reason he was bad | B |
| And the boy and doting mother | K |
| Put it over on the dad | B |
| Some day when he's grown as I am | R |
| With a boy on mischief bent | N |
| He will hear the timeworn story | F |
| Of the nervous temperament | L |
| And remembering the shingle | M |
| That aside I always threw | J |
| All I hope is that he'll let them | S |
| Put it over on him too | J |
Edgar Albert Guest
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