Somebody Spoke A Cheering Word Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEEF GHGHIIDJJD KJKJLLMNN| SOMEBODY spoke a cheering word | A |
| Somebody praised his labor | B |
| And something deep in his soul was stirred | A |
| That night he smiled at his neighbor | B |
| He kissed his wife with a hearty smack | C |
| He rode the children upon his back | C |
| And he sang a tuneful ditty | D |
| 'Ho ho ' he cried to his patient wife | E |
| 'I vow that never in all my life | E |
| Have I seen you look so pretty ' | F |
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| Then into her eyes the love light crept | G |
| A smile on her face appeared | H |
| She hummed a song as the room she swept | G |
| And the children tugged his beard | H |
| He told them stories of fairies good | I |
| Of pixies out in the distant wood | I |
| And the sailors on the sea | D |
| And there was a family made gay | J |
| Just because somebody chanced to say | J |
| One little word cheerfully | D |
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| And nobody knows how far it went | K |
| And nobody here can say | J |
| When the morning came and he bravely went | K |
| To his labors for the day | J |
| How much of the courage he showed was due | L |
| To the smile and the cheering word or two | L |
| But this we know anyhow | M |
| That he climbed the ladder to wealth and fame | N |
| And a cheering word may do the same | N |
Edgar Albert Guest
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