No Children! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFF GGHHIIJJKL MMNNOOIIPP QQRRIISSAANo 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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