The Change-worker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEGHIH JEKELMBMNOPO QRNRSFJFTUVU WNNNCXYXZOPO| that he's playin' down here | A |
| When there's nobody lookin' to him fer support | B |
| an' he don't give a thought to next year | C |
| His faults don't seem big an' his habits no worse | D |
| than a whole lot of others he knows | E |
| An' he don't seem to care what his neighbors may | F |
| say as heedlessly forward he goes | E |
| He don't stop to think if it's wrong or it's right | G |
| with his speech he is careless or glib | H |
| Till the minute the nurse lets him into the room | I |
| to see what's asleep in the crib | H |
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| An' then as he looks at that bundle o' red an' the | J |
| wee little fingers an' toes | E |
| An' he knows it's his flesh an' his blood that is there | K |
| an' will be just like him when it grows | E |
| It comes in a flash to a feller right then there is | L |
| more here than pleasure or pelf | M |
| An' the sort of a man his baby will be is the sort | B |
| of a man he's himself | M |
| Then he kisses the mother an' kisses the child an' | N |
| goes out determined that he | O |
| Will endeavor to be just the sort of a man that | P |
| he's wantin' his baby to be | O |
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| A feller don't think that it matters so much what | Q |
| he does till a baby arrives | R |
| He sows his wild oats an' he has his gay fling an' | N |
| headlong in pleasure he dives | R |
| An' a drink more or less doesn't matter much | S |
| then for life is a comedy gay | F |
| But the moment a crib is put in the home an' a | J |
| baby has come there to stay | F |
| He thinks of the things he has done in the past | T |
| an' it strikes him as hard as a blow | U |
| That the path he has trod in the past is a path | V |
| that he don't want his baby to go | U |
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| I ain't much to preach an' I can't just express | W |
| in the way that your clever men can | N |
| The thoughts that I think but it seems to me now | N |
| that when God wants to rescue a man | N |
| From himself an' the follies that harmless appear | C |
| but which under the surface are grim | X |
| He summons the angel of infancy sweet an' sends | Y |
| down a baby to him | X |
| For in that way He opens his eyes to himself and | Z |
| He gives him the vision to see | O |
| That his duty's to be just the sort of a man that | P |
| he's wantin' his baby to be | O |
Edgar Albert Guest
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