Stuck Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFF GHGHIBIBJJ KBKBLMLMNN| I'm up against it day by day | A |
| My ignorance is distressing | B |
| The things I don't know on the way | A |
| I'm busily confessing | B |
| Time was I used to think I knew | C |
| Some useful bits of knowledge | D |
| And could be sure of one or two | C |
| Real facts I'd gleaned in college | E |
| But I'm unfitted for the task | F |
| Of answering things my boy can ask | F |
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| Now who can answer queries queer | G |
| That four year olds can think up | H |
| And tell in simple phrase and clear | G |
| Why fishes do not drink up | H |
| The water in the streams and lakes | I |
| Or where the wind is going | B |
| And tell exactly how God makes | I |
| The roses that are growing | B |
| I'm sure I cannot satisfy | J |
| Each little when and how and why | J |
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| Had I the wisdom of a sage | K |
| Possessed of all the learning | B |
| That can be gleaned from printed page | K |
| From bookworm's closest turning | B |
| That eager knowledge seeking lad | L |
| That questions me so gayly | M |
| Could still go round and boast he had | L |
| With queries floored me daily | M |
| He'll stick I'll bet in less than five | N |
| Brief minutes any man alive | N |
Edgar Albert Guest
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