The Approach Of Christmas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHAA AAIIJJ| There's a little chap at our house that is being mighty good | A |
| Keeps the front lawn looking tidy in the way we've said he should | A |
| Doesn't leave his little wagon when he's finished with his play | B |
| On the sidewalk as he used to now he puts it right away | B |
| When we call him in to supper we don't have to stand and shout | C |
| It is getting on to Christmas and it's plain he's found it out | C |
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| He eats the food we give him without murmur or complaint | D |
| He sits up at the table like a cherub or a saint | D |
| He doesn't pinch his sister just to hear how loud she'll squeal | E |
| Doesn't ask us to excuse him in the middle of the meal | E |
| And at eight o'clock he's willing to be tucked away in bed | F |
| It is getting close to Christmas nothing further need be said | F |
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| I chuckle every evening as I see that little elf | G |
| With the crooked part proclaiming that he brushed his hair himself | G |
| And I chuckle as I notice that his hands and face are clean | H |
| For in him a perfect copy of another boy is seen | H |
| A little boy at Christmas who was also being good | A |
| Never guessing that his father and his mother understood | A |
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| There's a little boy at our house that is being mighty good | A |
| Doing everything that's proper doing everything he should | A |
| But besides him there's a grown up who has learned life's bitter truth | I |
| Who is gladly living over all the joys of vanished youth | I |
| And although he little knows it for it's what I never knew | J |
| There's a mighty happy father sitting at the table too | J |
Edgar Albert Guest
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