The Cookie Jar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFCGCHH IJKKCC| You can rig up a house with all manner of things | A |
| The prayer rugs of sultans and princes and kings | A |
| You can hang on its wall the old tapestries rare | B |
| Which some dead Egyptian once treasured with care | B |
| But though costly and gorgeous its furnishings are | C |
| It must have to be homelike an old cookie jar | C |
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| There are just a few things that a home must possess | D |
| Besides all your money and all your success | D |
| A few good old books which some loved one has read | E |
| Some trinkets of those whose sweet spirits have fled | E |
| And then in the pantry not shoved back too far | C |
| For the hungry to get to that old cookie jar | C |
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| Let the house be a mansion I care not at all | F |
| Let the finest of pictures be hung on each wall | F |
| Let the carpets be made of the richest velour | C |
| And the chairs only those which great wealth | G |
| can procure | C |
| I'd still want to keep for the joy of my flock | H |
| That homey old fashioned well filled cookie crock | H |
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| Like the love of the Mother it shines through our years | I |
| It has soothed all our hurts and dried away tears | J |
| It has paid us for toiling in sorrow or joy | K |
| It has always shown kindness to each girl and boy | K |
| And I'm sorry for people whoever they are | C |
| Who live in a house where there's no cookie jar | C |
Edgar Albert Guest
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