Practicing Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEDFF G HHI EEJ K LLAAMMN JJOOAAPPFF| day | A |
| Get through breakfast an' make my bed | B |
| And Mother says 'Marjorie run ahead | B |
| There's a time for work and a time for fun | C |
| So go and get your practicing done ' | D |
| And Bud he chuckles and says to me | E |
| 'Yes do your practicing Marjorie ' | D |
| A brother's an awful tease you know | F |
| And he just says that 'cause I hate it so | F |
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| They leave me alone in the parlor there | G |
| To play the scales or 'The Maiden's Prayer ' | - |
| And if I stop Mother's bound to call | H |
| 'Marjorie dear you're not playing at all | H |
| Don't waste your time but keep right on | I |
| Or you'll have to stay when the hour is gone ' | - |
| Or maybe the maid looks in at me | E |
| And says 'You're not playing as I can see | E |
| Just hustle along I've got work to do | J |
| And I can't dust the room until you get through ' | - |
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| Then when I've run over the scales and things | K |
| Like 'The Fairies' Dance ' or 'The Mountain Springs ' | - |
| And my fingers ache and my head is sore | L |
| I find I must sit there a half hour more | L |
| An hour is terribly long I say | A |
| When you've got to practice and want to play | A |
| So slowly at times has the big hand dropped | M |
| That I was sure that the clock had stopped | M |
| But Mother called down to me 'Don't forget | N |
| A full hour please It's not over yet ' | - |
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| Oh when I get big and have children too | J |
| There's one thing that I will never do | J |
| I won't have brothers to tease the girls | O |
| And make them mad when they pull their curls | O |
| And laugh at them when they've got to stay | A |
| And practice their music an hour a day | A |
| I won't have a maid like the one we've got | P |
| That likes to boss you around a lot | P |
| And I won't have a clock that can go so slow | F |
| When it's practice time 'cause I hate it so | F |
Edgar Albert Guest
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