When It's Bad To Forget Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHI JKJKGIGI| DID you ever meet a brother as you hurried on your way | A |
| And invite him up to dinner and his wife | B |
| Did you ever keep him standing until he had named the day | A |
| When you'd meet to talk about your early life | B |
| Did you ever say 'Next Tuesday we'll expect you up to dine ' | C |
| And repeat it so he'd have no cause to doubt it | D |
| Did you ever make him promise to come up and taste your wine | E |
| And then forget to tell your wife about it | D |
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| Did you ever get home feeling just as happy as a bird | F |
| Kiss your smiling wife and settle down to tea | G |
| And then get a sinking feeling in your insides as you heard | F |
| The door bell ring This has occurred to me | G |
| Has a single pork chop lying on a cold and greasy dish | H |
| Ever furiously set your heart to drumming | I |
| As your guests arrived that evening in obedience to your wish | H |
| And you hadn't told your wife that they were coming | I |
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| Oh I do not care for riches and I do not sigh for fame | J |
| And I do not yearn for glory or for power | K |
| And I don't care if I never learn to win a billiard game | J |
| At the present rate of cents an hour | K |
| With my lot I'd be contented and I know I'd happy be | G |
| And I'd go my way a bit of music humming | I |
| If I only could remember when I ask folks up for tea | G |
| To inform my darling wife that they are coming | I |
Edgar Albert Guest
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