Pleasure's Signs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGDHDH IJIJDGDG| There's a bump on his brow and a smear on his cheek | A |
| That is plainly the stain of his tears | B |
| At his neck there's a glorious sun painted streak | A |
| The bronze of his happiest years | C |
| Oh he's battered and bruised at the end of the day | D |
| But smiling before me he stands | E |
| And somehow I like to behold him that way | D |
| Yes I like him with dirt on his hands | E |
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| Last evening he painfully limped up to me | F |
| His tale of adventure to tell | G |
| He showed me a grime covered cut on his knee | F |
| And told me the place where he fell | G |
| His clothing was stained to the color of clay | D |
| And he looked to be nobody's lad | H |
| But somehow I liked to behold him that way | D |
| For it spoke of the fun that he'd had | H |
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| Let women folk prate as they will of a boy | I |
| Who is heedless of knickers and shirt | J |
| I hold that the badge of a young fellow's joy | I |
| Are cheeks that are covered with dirt | J |
| So I look for him nightly to greet me that way | D |
| His joys and misfortunes to tell | G |
| For I know by the signs that he wears of his play | D |
| That the lad I'm so fond of is well | G |
Edgar Albert Guest
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