The Home-wrecker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGDD HHIIJJDD KKLLEEDD EEHHMMDD| MISCHIEVOUS and full of fun | A |
| Eyes that sparkle like the sun | A |
| Mouth that's always in a smile | B |
| Hands in trouble all the while | B |
| Tugging this and tugging that | C |
| Nothing that you don't get at | C |
| Nothing that you do not do | D |
| Roguish little tyke of two | D |
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| Prying round the house you go | E |
| Everything you want to know | E |
| Everything you want to see | F |
| Bunch of curiosity | F |
| Nothing's safe with you about | G |
| Nothing you don't ferret out | G |
| 'No No's ' do not hinder you | D |
| Roguish little tyke of two | D |
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| All day long you tear and break | H |
| Ruin follows in your wake | H |
| Just as though the tables are | I |
| Made for little feet to mar | I |
| Just as though I spend my cash | J |
| For pottery for you to smash | J |
| You're destructive through and through | D |
| Roguish little tyke of two | D |
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| Hands and feet are never still | K |
| Ink you think is made to spill | K |
| On from this to that you pass | L |
| To the sound of falling glass | L |
| Cups you think were made to throw | E |
| On the hardwood floor below | E |
| Gleefully their wreck you view | D |
| Roguish little tyke of two | D |
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| But I'd rather have it so | E |
| Than the home I used to know | E |
| Rather have you crash and break | H |
| Leaving ruin in your wake | H |
| Rather have you tug and tear | M |
| Till the place is worn and bare | M |
| Than the childless home I knew | D |
| Roguish little tyke of two | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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