No Children! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFF GGHHIIJJKL MMNNOOIIPP QQRRIISSAA| No children in the house to play | A |
| It must be hard to live that way | A |
| I wonder what the people do | B |
| When night comes on and the work is through | B |
| With no glad little folks to shout | C |
| No eager feet to race about | C |
| No youthful tongues to chatter on | D |
| About the joy that's been and gone | E |
| The house might be a castle fine | F |
| But what a lonely place to dine | F |
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| No children in the house at all | G |
| No fingermarks upon the wall | G |
| No corner where the toys are piled | H |
| Sure indication of a child | H |
| No little lips to breathe the prayer | I |
| That God shall keep you in His care | I |
| No glad caress and welcome sweet | J |
| When night returns you to your street | J |
| No little lips a kiss to give | K |
| Oh what a lonely way to live | L |
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| No children in the house I fear | M |
| We could not stand it half a year | M |
| What would we talk about at night | N |
| Plan for and work with all our might | N |
| Hold common dreams about and find | O |
| True union of heart and mind | O |
| If we two had no greater care | I |
| Than what we both should eat and wear | I |
| We never knew love's brightest flame | P |
| Until the day the baby came | P |
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| And now we could not get along | Q |
| Without their laughter and their song | Q |
| Joy is not bottled on a shelf | R |
| It cannot feed upon itself | R |
| And even love if it shall wear | I |
| Must find its happiness in care | I |
| Dull we'd become of mind and speech | S |
| Had we no little ones to teach | S |
| No children in the house to play | A |
| Oh we could never live that way | A |
Edgar Albert Guest
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