The Old-fashioned Cooks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHDHD IJKJLDLD HMHMEDED| Poets have sung of the old fashioned glories | A |
| The old fashioned pictures that hung on the wall | B |
| The old fashioned people the old fashioned stories | A |
| The old fashioned fashions they love to recall | B |
| The squeaky armchair that our grandmothers sat in | C |
| The old fashioned shelves with their old fashioned books | D |
| Immortalized have been in Saxon or Latin | E |
| But I sing my song to the old fashioned cooks | D |
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| O come all ye gods and give grace to my ballad | F |
| Today I would sing as I ne'er sang before | G |
| I 'm heartsick of dining on lettuce and salad | F |
| And canned goods warmed over delight me no more | G |
| I wish I could go once again to a dinner | H |
| That badn't been planned out of style sheets or books | D |
| They may be all right for a sweet young beginner | H |
| But they were not needed by old fashioned cooks | D |
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| How well I remember the table cloth spotless | I |
| The dishes that shone like the cheek of a child | J |
| The jellies and relishes O there were not less | K |
| Than eight or nine kinds on the festive board piled | J |
| There were no little dabs served to make you ungrateful | L |
| They took it for granted I guess from your looks | D |
| That hunger was yours and they gave you a plateful | L |
| Of viands most toothsome those old fashioned cooks | D |
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| You came to their tables to eat not to chatter | H |
| And heaped were the plates that they passed up to you | M |
| In richest of gravies the meat in the platter | H |
| Was swimming and side dishes never were few | M |
| They fed us with plenty not starved us with fashion | E |
| They gave us enough and they cared not for looks | D |
| And just now with me it is almost a passion | E |
| I yearn for a dinner by old fashioned cooks | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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