The Graduation Dress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHFEJE KLALCEFE| I'M not kicking on expenses now the sewing time commences | A |
| I will buy chiffon and laces till they say they've got enough | B |
| Sure her dress for graduation shall excite the admiration | C |
| Of the masses who behold her it shall be the finest stuff | B |
| She shall even carry roses when her high school training closes | D |
| For she's worthy of the finest that there is in all the town | E |
| But I sometimes sit and ponder of the days away off yonder | F |
| When her mother graduated in a simple gingham gown | E |
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| I have watched the fuss and bustle and this ceaseless rush and hustle | G |
| And I've listened to the planning of this graduation dress | H |
| And I know when all is ended she will make a picture splendid | I |
| And I wouldn't be contented if she didn't I confess | H |
| But I still recall the other glorious picture of her mother | F |
| With her cheeks as pink as peaches and her hair a golden brown | E |
| As I gazed at her enraptured and my heart I know she captured | J |
| On the day she graduated in her simple gingham gown | E |
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| I'd be laughed down if I said it in such matters they don't credit | K |
| Me with knowing what is really very swell | L |
| I can picture now their faces if instead of silk and laces | A |
| My preference for gingham I should tell | L |
| But with me it's grown a passion and in spite of style and fashion | C |
| And what women folks think needful I insist and write it down | E |
| I shall never see another quite so charming as her mother | F |
| On the day she graduated in her simple gingham gown | E |
Edgar Albert Guest
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