No Children! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFF GGHHIIJJKL MMNNOOIIPP QQRRIISSAA

No children in the house to playA
It must be hard to live that wayA
I wonder what the people doB
When night comes on and the work is throughB
With no glad little folks to shoutC
No eager feet to race aboutC
No youthful tongues to chatter onD
About the joy that's been and goneE
The house might be a castle fineF
But what a lonely place to dineF
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No children in the house at allG
No fingermarks upon the wallG
No corner where the toys are piledH
Sure indication of a childH
No little lips to breathe the prayerI
That God shall keep you in His careI
No glad caress and welcome sweetJ
When night returns you to your streetJ
No little lips a kiss to giveK
Oh what a lonely way to liveL
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No children in the house I fearM
We could not stand it half a yearM
What would we talk about at nightN
Plan for and work with all our mightN
Hold common dreams about and findO
True union of heart and mindO
If we two had no greater careI
Than what we both should eat and wearI
We never knew love's brightest flameP
Until the day the baby cameP
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And now we could not get alongQ
Without their laughter and their songQ
Joy is not bottled on a shelfR
It cannot feed upon itselfR
And even love if it shall wearI
Must find its happiness in careI
Dull we'd become of mind and speechS
Had we no little ones to teachS
No children in the house to playA
Oh we could never live that wayA

Edgar Albert Guest



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