The Perfect Dinner Table Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHEEDD IIJJKKGGEE LMNNCCOODD| A table cloth that's slightly soiled | A |
| Where greasy little hands have toiled | A |
| The napkins kept in silver rings | B |
| And only ordinary things | B |
| From which to eat a simple fare | C |
| And just the wife and kiddies there | C |
| And while I serve the clatter glad | D |
| Of little girl and little lad | D |
| Who have so very much to say | E |
| About the happenings of the day | E |
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| Four big round eyes that dance with glee | F |
| Forever flashing joys at me | F |
| Two little tongues that race and run | G |
| To tell of troubles and of fun | G |
| The mother with a patient smile | H |
| Who knows that she must wait awhile | H |
| Before she'll get a chance to say | E |
| What she's discovered through the day | E |
| She steps aside for girl and lad | D |
| Who have so much to tell their dad | D |
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| Our manners may not be the best | I |
| Perhaps our elbows often rest | I |
| Upon the table and at times | J |
| That very worst of dinner crimes | J |
| That very shameful act and rude | K |
| Of speaking ere you've downed your food | K |
| Too frequently I fear is done | G |
| So fast the little voices run | G |
| Yet why should table manners stay | E |
| Those tongues that have so much to say | E |
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| At many a table I have been | L |
| Where wealth and luxury were seen | M |
| And I have dined in halls of pride | N |
| Where all the guests were dignified | N |
| But when it comes to pleasure rare | C |
| The perfect dinner table's where | C |
| No stranger's face is ever known | O |
| The dinner hour we spend alone | O |
| When little girl and little lad | D |
| Run riot telling things to dad | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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