The Change Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF GGHHIIJJBBDD KKLLMMNNOOAA| 'Twas hard to think that he must go | A |
| We knew that we should miss him so | A |
| We thought that he must always stay | B |
| Beside us laughing day by day | B |
| That he must never know the care | C |
| And hurt and grief of life out there | C |
| Then came the call for youth and he | D |
| Talked with his mother and with me | D |
| And suddenly we learned the boy | E |
| Was hungering to know the joy | E |
| Of doing something real with life | F |
| And that he craved the test of strife | F |
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| And so we steeled ourselves to dread | G |
| To see at night his empty bed | G |
| To feel the silence and the gloom | H |
| That hovers o'er his vacant room | H |
| And though we wept the day he went | I |
| And many a lonely hour we've spent | I |
| We've come to think as he somehow | J |
| And we are more contented now | J |
| We're proud that we can stand and say | B |
| We have a boy who's gone away | B |
| And we are glad to know that he | D |
| Is serving where he ought to be | D |
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| It's queer the change that time has brought | K |
| We're different now in speech and thought | K |
| His letters home mean joy to us | L |
| His difficulties we discuss | L |
| When word of his promotion came | M |
| His mother with her eyes aflame | M |
| With happiness and pride rushed out | N |
| To tell the neighbors round about | N |
| Her boy Her boy is doing well | O |
| What greater news can mothers tell | O |
| I think that pity now we show | A |
| For those who have no boys to go | A |
Edgar Albert Guest
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