Snooping 'round Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEE FFA E GGHHEE IJIKKEE| Last night I caught him on his knees and looking underneath the bed | A |
| And oh the guilty look he wore and oh the stammered words he said | A |
| When I pretending to be cross said 'Hey young fellow what's your | B |
| game ' | C |
| As if back in the long ago I hadn't also played the same | D |
| As if upon my hands and knees I hadn't many a time been found | E |
| When thinking of the Christmas Day I'd gone upstairs to snoop around | E |
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| But there he stood and hung his head the rascal knew it wasn't fair | F |
| 'I jes' was wonderin' ' he said 'jes' what it was that's under there | F |
| It's somepin' all wrapped up an' I thought mebbe it might be a sled | A |
| Becoz I saw a piece of wood 'at's stickin' out all painted red ' | - |
| 'If mother knew ' I said to him 'you'd get a licking I'll be bound | E |
| But just clear out of here at once and don't you ever snoop around ' | - |
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| And as he scampered down the stairs I stood and chuckled to myself | G |
| As I remembered how I'd oft explored the topmost closet shelf | G |
| It all came back again to me with what a shrewd and cunning way | H |
| I too had often sought to solve the mysteries of Christmas Day | H |
| How many times my daddy too had come upstairs without a sound | E |
| And caught me just as I'd begun my clever scheme to snoop around | E |
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| And oh I envied him his plight I envied him the joy he feels | I |
| Who knows that every drawer that's locked some treasure dear to him | J |
| conceals | I |
| I envied him his Christmas fun and wished that it again were mine | K |
| To seek to solve the mysteries by paper wrapped and bound by twine | K |
| Some day he'll come to understand that all the time I stood and frowned | E |
| I saw a boy of years ago who also used to snoop around | E |
Edgar Albert Guest
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