Playing For Keeps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFDDGGHHDDII JJDD| I've watched him change from his bibs and things from bonnets known as 'cute ' | A |
| To little frocks and later on I saw him don a suit | B |
| And though it was of calico those knickers gave him joy | C |
| Until the day we all agreed 'twas time for corduroy | C |
| I say I've seen the changes come it seems with bounds and leaps | D |
| But here's another just arrived he's playing mibs for keeps | D |
| The guide posts of his life fly by The boy that is to day | E |
| To morrow morning we may wake to find has gone away | E |
| And in his place will be a lad we've never known before | F |
| Older and wiser in his ways and filled with new found lore | F |
| Now here's another boy to day counting his marble heaps | D |
| And proudly boasting to his dad he's playing mibs for keeps | D |
| His mother doesn't like this change She says it is a shame | G |
| That since he plays with larger boys he's bound to lose the game | G |
| But little do I mind his loss I'm more concerned to know | H |
| The way he acts the times when he must see his marbles go | H |
| And oh I hope he will not be the little boy who weeps | D |
| Too much when he has failed to win while playing mibs for keeps | D |
| Playing for keeps Another step toward manhood's broad estate | I |
| This is what some term growing up or destiny or fate | I |
| Yet from this game with marbles played with youngsters on the street | J |
| I hope will come a larger boy too big to lie or cheat | J |
| And by these mibs which from his clutch another madly sweeps | D |
| I hope he'll learn the game of life which must be played for keeps | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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