The Broken Drum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEEEFGHGIEJEHKJK LEMELNONPEIE| There is sorrow in the household | A |
| There's a grief too hard to bear | B |
| There's a little cheek that's tear stained | C |
| There's a sobbing baby there | B |
| And try how we will to comfort | D |
| Still the tiny teardrops come | E |
| For to solve a vexing problem | E |
| Curly Locks has wrecked his drum | E |
| It had puzzled him and worried | F |
| How the drum created sound | G |
| For he couldn't understand it | H |
| It was not enough to pound | G |
| With his tiny hands and drumsticks | I |
| And at last the day has come | E |
| When another hope is shattered | J |
| Now in ruins lies his drum | E |
| With his metal bank he broke it | H |
| Tore the tightened skin aside | K |
| Gazed on vacant space bewildered | J |
| Then he broke right down and cried | K |
| For the broken bubble shocked him | L |
| And the baby tears must come | E |
| Now a joy has gone forever | M |
| Curly Locks has wrecked his drum | E |
| While his mother tries to soothe him | L |
| I am sitting here alone | N |
| In the life that lies behind me | O |
| Many shocks like that I've known | N |
| And the boy who's upstairs weeping | P |
| In the years that are to come | E |
| Will learn that many pleasures | I |
| Are as empty as his drum | E |
Edgar Albert Guest
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