The Handy Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEAEFGHGIEJEKLML NBOBPBQBRSTUVBWBEXYU ZVGVBEA2E| The handy man about the house | A |
| Is old and bent and gray | B |
| Each morning in the yard he toils | C |
| Where all the children play | B |
| Some new task every day he finds | D |
| Some task he loves to do | E |
| The handy man about the house | A |
| Whose work is never through | E |
| The children stand to see him toil | F |
| And watch him mend a chair | G |
| They bring their broken toys to him | H |
| He keeps them in repair | G |
| No idle moment Grandpa spends | I |
| But finds some work to do | E |
| And hums a snatch of some old song | J |
| That in his youth he knew | E |
| He builds with wood most wondrous things | K |
| A table for the den | L |
| A music rack to please the girls | M |
| A gun case for the men | L |
| And 'midst his paints and tools he smiles | N |
| And seems as young and gay | B |
| As any of the little ones | O |
| Who round him run in play | B |
| I stopped to speak with him awhile | P |
| 'Oh tell me Grandpa pray | B |
| I said 'why do you work so hard | Q |
| Throughout the livelong day | B |
| Your hair is gray your back is bent | R |
| With weight of years oppressed | S |
| This is the evening of your life | T |
| Why don't you sit and rest ' | U |
| 'Ah no ' the old man answered me | V |
| 'Although I'm old and gray | B |
| I like to work out here where I | W |
| Can watch the children play | B |
| The old have tasks that they must do | E |
| The greatest of my joys | X |
| Is working on this shaded porch | Y |
| And mending children's toys ' | U |
| And as I wandered on I thought | Z |
| Oh shall I lonely be | V |
| When time has powdered white my hair | G |
| And left his mark on me | V |
| Will little children round me play | B |
| Shall I have work to do | E |
| Or shall I be when age is mine | A2 |
| Lonely and useless too | E |
Edgar Albert Guest
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