Off To School Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFGGCC HHIICC| IT doesn't seem a year ago that I was tumbling out of bed | A |
| The icy steps that lead below at a m barefoot to tread | A |
| And puttering round the kitchen stove while chills ran up and down my form | B |
| As I stood there and waited for her bottled dinner to get warm | B |
| Then sampled it to see that it was not too hot or not too cool | C |
| That doesn't seem a year ago and now she's trudging off to school | C |
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| It doesn't seem a month ago that I was teaching her to walk | D |
| And holding out my arms to her And that was 'fore she learned to talk | D |
| I stood her up against the wall eager yet watchful lest she fall | E |
| Then suddenly she came to me the first two steps those feet so small | E |
| Had unassisted ever made Those feet I hope to guide and rule | C |
| That doesn't seem a month ago and now she's trudging off to school | C |
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| It doesn't seem a week ago that we were playing peeka boo | F |
| She'd lift her little dress and hide her face as all the babies do | F |
| And then we'd laugh and romp and shout and I would ride her pig a back | G |
| A pair of gay disturbers we with not a care along life's track | G |
| The days were meant for laughter then and I was glad to play the fool | C |
| That doesn't seem a week ago and now she's trudging off to school | C |
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| Oh Father Time line deep my brow and tinge my thinning hair with gray | H |
| Deal harshly with my battered form as you go speeding on your way | H |
| Print on my face your marks of years and stamp me with your yesterdays | I |
| But oh tread softly now I pray the ground whereon my baby plays | I |
| Pass over her with gentle touch to keep her young break every rule | C |
| But yesterday she was a babe and now she's trudging off to school | C |
Edgar Albert Guest
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