The Cookie-lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDDC EEFGHIJG DDKLMMNL CCOPQQBP RRFSDDDS| She is gentle kind and fair | A |
| And there's silver in her hair | A |
| She has known the touch of sorrow | B |
| But the smile of her is sweet | C |
| And sometimes it seems to me | D |
| That her mission is to be | D |
| The gracious cookie lady | D |
| To the youngsters of the street | C |
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| All the children in the block | E |
| Daily stand beside the crock | E |
| Where she keeps the sugar cookies | F |
| That the little folks enjoy | G |
| And no morning passes o'er | H |
| That a tapping at her door | I |
| Doesn't warn her of the visit | J |
| Of a certain little boy | G |
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| She has made him feel that he | D |
| Has a natural right to be | D |
| In her kitchen when she's baking | K |
| Pies and cakes and ginger bread | L |
| And each night to me he brings | M |
| All the pretty tender things | M |
| About little by gone children | N |
| That the cookie lady said | L |
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| Oh dear cookie lady sweet | C |
| May you beautify our street | C |
| With your kind and gentle presence | O |
| Many more glad years I pray | P |
| May the skies be bright above you | Q |
| As you've taught our babes to love you | Q |
| You will scar their hearts with sorrow | B |
| If you ever go away | P |
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| Life is strange and when I scan it | R |
| I believe God tries to plan it | R |
| So that where He sends his babies | F |
| In that neighborhood to dwell | S |
| One of rare and gracious beauty | D |
| Shall abide whose sweetest duty | D |
| Is to be the cookie lady | D |
| That the children love so well | S |
Edgar Albert Guest
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