The Old-fashioned Parents Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEAA FFGHH IIJJ KLDD| The good old fashioned mothers and the good old fashioned dads | A |
| With their good old fashioned lassies and their good old fashioned lads | A |
| Still walk the lanes of loving in their simple tender ways | B |
| As they used to do back yonder in the good old fashioned days | B |
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| They dwell in every city and they live in every town | C |
| Contentedly and happy and not hungry for renown | C |
| On every street you'll find 'em in their simple garments clad | D |
| The good old fashioned mother and the good old fashioned dad | D |
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| There are some who sigh for riches there are some who yearn for fame | E |
| And a few misguided people who no longer blush at shame | E |
| But the world is full of mothers and the world is full of dads | A |
| Who are making sacrifices for their little girls and lads | A |
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| They are growing old together arm in arm they walk along | F |
| And their hearts with love are beating and their voices sweet with song | F |
| They still share their disappointments and they share their pleasures | G |
| too | H |
| And whatever be their fortune to each other they are true | H |
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| They are watching at the bedside of a baby pale and white | I |
| And they kneel and pray together for the care of God at night | I |
| They are romping with their children in the fields of clover sweet | J |
| And devotedly they guard them from the perils of the street | J |
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| They are here in countless numbers just as they have always been | K |
| And their glory is untainted by the selfish and the mean | L |
| And I'd hate to still be living it would dismal be and sad | D |
| If we'd no old fashioned mother and we'd no old fashioned dad | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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