Pretending Not To See Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEF BBGGDDHHDD AAIIJJKKDD LLBBAAMMBB| Sometimes at the table when | A |
| He gets misbehavin' then | A |
| Mother calls across to me | B |
| 'Look at him now Don't you see | B |
| What he's doin' sprawlin ' there | C |
| Make him sit up in his chair | C |
| Don't you see the messy way | D |
| That he's eating ' An' I say | D |
| 'No He seems all right just now | E |
| What's he doing anyhow ' | F |
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| Mother placed him there by me | B |
| An' she thinks I ought to see | B |
| Every time he breaks the laws | G |
| An' correct him just because | G |
| There will come a time some day | D |
| When he mustn't act that way | D |
| But I can't be all along | H |
| Scoldin' him for doin' wrong | H |
| So if something goes astray | D |
| I jus' look the other way | D |
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| Mother tells me now an' then | A |
| I'm the easiest o' men | A |
| An' in dealin' with the lad | I |
| I will never see the bad | I |
| That he does an' I suppose | J |
| Mother's right for Mother knows | J |
| But I'd hate to feel that I'm | K |
| Here to scold him all the time | K |
| Little faults might spoil the day | D |
| So I look the other way | D |
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| Look the other way an' try | L |
| Not to let him catch my eye | L |
| Knowin' all the time that he | B |
| Doesn't mean so bad to be | B |
| Knowin' too that now an' then | A |
| I am not the best o' men | A |
| Hopin' too the times I fall | M |
| That the Father of us all | M |
| Lovin' watchin' over me | B |
| Will pretend He doesn't see | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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