Taking His Place Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHIIJJ KKEEBBFFLL MNFOPPQQD| He's doing double duty now | A |
| Time's silver gleams upon his brow | A |
| And there are lines upon his face | B |
| Which only passing years can trace | B |
| And yet he's turned back many a page | C |
| Long written in the book of age | C |
| For since their boy has marched away | D |
| This kindly father growing gray | D |
| Is doing for the mother true | E |
| The many things the boy would do | E |
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| Just as the son came home each night | F |
| With youthful step and eyes alight | F |
| So he returns and with a shout | G |
| Of greeting puts her grief to rout | G |
| He says that she shall never miss | H |
| The pleasure of that evening kiss | H |
| And with strong arms and manner brave | I |
| He simulates the hug he gave | I |
| And loves her when the day is done | J |
| Both as a husband and a son | J |
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| His laugh has caught a clearer ring | K |
| His step has claimed the old time swing | K |
| And though his absence hurts him too | E |
| The bravest thing that he can do | E |
| Is just to try to take his place | B |
| And keep the smiles on mother's face | B |
| So merrily he jests at night | F |
| Tells her with all a boy's delight | F |
| Of what has happened in the town | L |
| And thus keeps melancholy down | L |
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| Her letters breathe of hope and cheer | M |
| No note of gloom she sends from here | N |
| And as her husband reads at night | F |
| The many messages she writes | O |
| He chuckles o'er the closing line | P |
| She's failed his secret to divine | P |
| 'When you get home ' she tells the lad | Q |
| 'You'll scarcely know your doting dad | Q |
| Although his hair is turning gray | D |
| He seems more like a boy each day ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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