The Right Family Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEF GGBBHHIIE CCBBIIEE J KKIILMNNOO| With time our notions allus change | A |
| An' years make old idees seem strange | A |
| Take Mary there time was when she | B |
| Thought one child made a family | B |
| An' when our eldest Jim was born | C |
| She used to say both night an' morn' | C |
| 'One little one to love an' keep | D |
| To guard awake an' watch asleep | D |
| To bring up right an' lead him through | E |
| Life's path is all we ought to do ' | F |
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| Two years from then our Jennie came | G |
| But Mary didn't talk the same | G |
| 'Now that's just right ' she said to me | B |
| 'We've got the proper family | B |
| A boy an' girl God sure is good | H |
| It seems as though He understood | H |
| That I've been hopin' every way | I |
| To have a little girl some day | I |
| Sometimes I've prayed the whole night through | E |
| One ain't enough we needed two ' | - |
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| Then as the months went rollin' on | C |
| One day the stork brought little John | C |
| An' Mary smiled an' said to me | B |
| 'The proper family is three | B |
| Two boys a girl to romp an' play | I |
| Jus' work enough to fill the day | I |
| I never had enough to do | E |
| The months that we had only two | E |
| Three's jus' right pa we don't want more ' | - |
| Still time went on an' we had four | J |
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| An' that was years ago I vow | K |
| An' we have six fine children now | K |
| An' Mary's plumb forgot the day | I |
| She used to sit an' sweetly say | I |
| That one child was enough for her | L |
| To love an' give the proper care | M |
| One two or three or four or five | N |
| Why goodness gracious sakes alive | N |
| If God should send her ten to night | O |
| She'd vow her fam'ly was jus' right | O |
Edgar Albert Guest
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