Pleasing Dad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCC AADDEE FFGGHH IIJJII| ticed in a general way my dad was proud of me | A |
| He liked the little ways I had the simple things I said | B |
| Sometimes he gave me words of praise sometimes he stroked my head | B |
| And when I'd done a thing worth while the thought that made me glad | C |
| Was always that I'd done my best and that would please my dad | C |
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| I can look back to day and see how proud he used to be | A |
| When I'd come home from school and say they'd recommended me | A |
| I didn't understand it then for school boys never do | D |
| But in a vague and general way it seems to me I knew | D |
| That father took great pride in me and wanted me to shine | E |
| And that it meant a lot to him when I'd done something fine | E |
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| Then one day out of school I went amid the great world's hum | F |
| An office boy and father watched each night to see me come | F |
| And I recall how proud he was of me that wondrous day | G |
| When I could tell him that unasked the firm had raised my pay | G |
| I still can feel that hug he gave I understand the joy | H |
| It meant to him to learn that men were trusting in his boy | H |
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| I wonder will it please my dad How oft the thought occurs | I |
| When I am stumbling on the paths beset with briars and burrs | I |
| He isn't here to see me now alone my race I run | J |
| And yet some day I'll go to him and tell him all I've done | J |
| And oh I pray that when we meet beyond life's stormy sea | I |
| That he may claim the old time joy of being proud of me | I |
Edgar Albert Guest
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