The Happiest Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE DDFFGGHHII JKLLMMDDNN OOPPQQRRII FFSSAATTUU| You do not know it little man | A |
| In your summer coat of tan | A |
| And your legs bereft of hose | B |
| And your peeling sunburned nose | B |
| With a stone bruise on your toe | C |
| Almost limping as you go | C |
| Running on your way to play | D |
| Through another summer day | D |
| Friend of birds and streams and trees | E |
| That your happiest days are these | E |
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| Little do you think to day | D |
| As you hurry to your play | D |
| That a lot of us grown old | F |
| In the chase for fame and gold | F |
| Watch you as you pass along | G |
| Gayly whistling bits of song | G |
| And in envy sit and dream | H |
| Of a long neglected stream | H |
| Where long buried are the joys | I |
| We possessed when we were boys | I |
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| Little chap you cannot guess | J |
| All your sum of happiness | K |
| Little value do you place | L |
| On your sunburned freckled face | L |
| And if some shrewd fairy came | M |
| Offering sums of gold and fame | M |
| For your summer days of play | D |
| You would barter them away | D |
| And believe that you had made | N |
| There and then a clever trade | N |
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| Time was we were boys like you | O |
| Bare of foot and sunburned too | O |
| And like you we never guessed | P |
| All the riches we possessed | P |
| We'd have traded them back then | Q |
| For the hollow joys of men | Q |
| We'd have given them all to be | R |
| Rich and wise and forty three | R |
| For life never teaches boys | I |
| Just how precious are their joys | I |
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| Youth has fled and we are old | F |
| Some of us have fame and gold | F |
| Some of us are sorely scarred | S |
| For the way of age is hard | S |
| And we envy little man | A |
| You your splendid coat of tan | A |
| Envy you your treasures rare | T |
| Hours of joy beyond compare | T |
| For we know by teaching stern | U |
| All that some day you must learn | U |
Edgar Albert Guest
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