Our House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFBBGG HHIIJJ| WE play at our house and have all sorts of fun | A |
| An' there's always a game when supper is done | A |
| An' at our house there's marks on the walls an' the stairs | B |
| An' some terrible scratches on some of the chairs | B |
| An' ma says that our house is surely a fright | C |
| But pa and I say that our house is all right | C |
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| At our house we laugh an' we sing an' we shout | D |
| An' whirl all the chairs and the tables about | D |
| An' I rassle my pa an' I get him down too | E |
| An' he's all out of breath when the fightin' is through | E |
| An' ma says our house is surely a sight | C |
| But pa an' I say that our house is all right | C |
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| I've been to houses with pa where I had | F |
| To sit in a chair like a good little lad | F |
| An' there wasn't a mark on the walls an' the chairs | B |
| An' the stuff that we have couldn't come up to theirs | B |
| An' pa said to ma that for all of their joy | G |
| He wouldn't change places and give up his boy | G |
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| They never have races nor rassles nor fights | H |
| Coz they have no children to play with at nights | H |
| An' their walls are all clean and their curtains hang straight | I |
| An' everything's shiny an' right up to date | I |
| But pa says with all of its racket an' fuss | J |
| He'd rather by far live at our house with us | J |
Edgar Albert Guest
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