Ten Fingered Mice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHHFF| When a cake is nicely frosted and it's put away for tea | A |
| And it looks as trim and proper as a chocolate cake should be | A |
| Would it puzzle you at evening as you brought it from the ledge | B |
| To find the chocolate missing from its smooth and shiny edge | B |
| As you viewed the cake in sorrow would you look around and say | C |
| 'Who's been nibbling in the pantry when he should have been at play ' | D |
| And if little eyes look guilty as they hungered for a slice | E |
| Would you take Dad's explanation that it must have been the mice | E |
| Oh I'm sorry for the household that can keep a frosted cake | F |
| Smooth and perfect through the daytime for the hearts of them must ache | F |
| For it must be very lonely to be living in a house | G |
| Where the pantry's never ravaged by a glad ten fingered mouse | G |
| Though I've traveled far past forty I confess that I myself | H |
| Even now will nip a morsel from the good things on the shelf | H |
| And I never blame the youngsters who discover chocolate cake | F |
| For the tiny little samples which exultantly they take | F |
Edgar Albert Guest
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