The Family Party Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IIJJKKLM IINNOOAA| ime family parties we gave so long ago | A |
| When every near relation and distant cousins too | B |
| The married ones with children Aunt Mary and Aunt Sue | B |
| The grandpas and the grandmas yes everyone of kin | C |
| The nephews and the neices and some who married in | C |
| Came trooping to the old home with laughter and with smile | D |
| And had their fun together in the good old fashioned style | D |
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| The games we played have vanished and gone beyond recall | E |
| But I still can see the donkey that hung upon the wall | E |
| And Uncle Ben blindfolded his arm out like a flail | F |
| Trying to find the proper place on which to pin the tail | F |
| And I can hear the laughter that rose up like a roar | G |
| When Uncle Ben had pinned it upon the parlor door | G |
| And I can see the women folks sit on a crock and try | H |
| To pass a piece of linen thread right through a needle's eye | H |
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| The old time family parties when Cousin Will would play | I |
| The square piano for us in a real heart gripping way | I |
| And Lil and Tom and Annie would take their turn and sing | J |
| Those songs which took your fancy and had the proper swing | J |
| And when they tired of singing somebody would recite | K |
| A scene or two from Shakespeare and do the thing up right | K |
| Then we 'd all sit down to supper and I tell you if | L |
| you please It wasn't any dinky lunch you juggle on your knees | M |
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| But a real bang up collation that's what mother used to say | I |
| Of tongue and ham and cold roast beef it took her 'most a day | I |
| To prepare that supper for us there were jellies red and fine | N |
| And layer cakes and pound cakes and some cakes of quaint design | N |
| Oh there 's nothing now can beat them though we've put on style and airs | O |
| And adopted all the customs that obtain with millionaires | O |
| We don't have the fun we used to nor the joy we used to know | A |
| At the old time family parlies in the days of long ago | A |
Edgar Albert Guest
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