The Important Thing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD E FFG EEHHFF EEIIGG| He was playing in the garden when we called him in for tea | A |
| But he didn't seem to hear us so I went out there to see | A |
| What the little rogue was up to and I stooped and asked him why | B |
| When he heard his mother calling he had made her no reply | B |
| 'I am playing war ' he told me 'and I'm up against defeat | C |
| And until I stop the Germans I can't take the time to eat ' | D |
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| 'Isn't supper so important that you'll quit your round of play | E |
| Don't you want to eat the shortcake mother made for you to day ' | - |
| Then I asked him but he answered as he shook his little head | F |
| 'I don't dare to stop for shortcake if I do they'll kill me dead | F |
| When I drive them from their trenches then to supper I'll come in | G |
| But I mustn't stop a minute 'cause this war I've got to win ' | - |
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| I left him in his battle left him there to end his play | E |
| For he'd taught to me a lesson that is needed much to day | E |
| Not the lure of cake could turn him from the work he had to do | H |
| There was nothing so important as to see his struggle through | H |
| And I wondered all that evening as he slumbered in his bed | F |
| If we'd risen to the meaning of the work that lies ahead | F |
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| Are we roused to the importance of the danger in our way | E |
| Are we thinking still of pleasures as we thought but yesterday | E |
| Are our comforts and our riches in our minds still uppermost | I |
| Must we wait to see our danger till the foe is on our coast | I |
| Oh there's nothing so important nothing now that's worth a pin | G |
| Save the war that we are fighting It's a war we've got to win | G |
Edgar Albert Guest
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