The Old-time Family Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCC DDEEFF GHIIJJ| rdens they are bearing with a child or two to raise | A |
| Of course the cost of living has gone soaring to the sky | B |
| And our kids are wearing garments that my parents couldn't buy | B |
| Now my father wasn't wealthy but I never heard him squeal | C |
| Because eight of us were sitting at the table every meal | C |
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| People fancy they are martyrs if their children number three | D |
| And four or five they reckon makes a large sized family | D |
| A dozen hungry youngsters at a table I have seen | E |
| And their daddy didn't grumble when they licked the platter clean | E |
| Oh I wonder how these mothers and these fathers up to date | F |
| Would like the job of buying little shoes for seven or eight | F |
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| We were eight around the table in those happy days back them | G |
| Eight that cleaned our plates of pot pie and then passed them up again | H |
| Eight that needed shoes and stockings eight to wash and put to bed | I |
| And with mighty little money in the purse as I have said | I |
| But with all the care we brought them and through all the days of stress | J |
| I never heard my father or my mother wish for less | J |
Edgar Albert Guest
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