The Little Country Bus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDEFFE AAGHHGIIAJJA KKLMMLNNOPPO FFKEEKBBQRRQ| There's no lock upon your door | A |
| And the polish that you wore | A |
| In the years ago when you were bright and new | B |
| Now has lost its splendid shine | C |
| And your driver's bending spine | C |
| Shows that he's been getting old along with you | B |
| You are slipping fast I see | D |
| So indeed old bus is he | D |
| But you rattle and you bang along the street | E |
| And I wonder as you go | F |
| What of joy or what of woe | F |
| You'll discover when the limited you meet | E |
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| Who is coming home once more | A |
| To his father's welcome door | A |
| Is it failure or success that he will bring | G |
| Is a daughter slipping back | H |
| From the city's cruel track | H |
| For the lullaby that mother used to sing | G |
| Is she happy Is she sad | I |
| For I know old bus you've had | I |
| Both your passengers a thousand times or more | A |
| And old driver you can't hide | J |
| Just how many times you've sighed | J |
| As you've opened or have shut that shaky door | A |
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| You have seen them go away | K |
| Full of strength and hope and gay | K |
| You have seen them start as children fine and then | L |
| When the limited you've met | M |
| Both your kindly eyes were wet | M |
| As you saw them back as women and as men | L |
| You have read the tale of life | N |
| Read the heartache and the strife | N |
| Read the sorrows that we'd better not discuss | O |
| Read the joy of splendid things | P |
| And the pain that failure brings | P |
| As you've carried all that's human in your bus | O |
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| So I wonder as you go | F |
| What you'll find of joy or woe | F |
| When the limited pulls in on time today | K |
| What of conquest or defeat | E |
| Will it be your lot to meet | E |
| And to welcome in your gentle kindly way | K |
| Both your shaky bus and you | B |
| With life's toil are nearly through | B |
| Soon your soul upon a journey far will roam | Q |
| And I like to think you'll ask | R |
| God to let it be your task | R |
| To welcome all the children coming home | Q |
Edgar Albert Guest
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