When The Minister Calls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEBB FFGGEBHHBB EEIIJJKKBB| When The Minister Calls | A |
| My Paw says that it used to be | B |
| Whenever the minister came for tea | B |
| 'At they sat up straight in their chairs at night | C |
| An' put all their common things out o' sight | C |
| An' nobody cracked a joke or grinned | D |
| But they talked o' the way that people sinned | D |
| An' the burnin' fires that would cook you sure | E |
| When you came to die if you wasn't pure | E |
| Such a gloomy affair it used to be | B |
| Whenever the minister came for tea | B |
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| But now when the minister comes to call | F |
| I get him out for a game of ball | F |
| And you'd never know if you'd see him bat | G |
| Without any coat or vest or hat | G |
| That he is a minister no siree | E |
| He looks like a regular man to me | B |
| An' he knows just how to go down to the dirt | H |
| For the grounders hot without gettin' hurt | H |
| An' when they call us both him an' me | B |
| Have to git washed up again for tea | B |
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| Our minister says if you'll just play fair | E |
| You'll be fit for heaven or anywhere | E |
| An' fun's all right if your hands are clean | I |
| An' you never cheat an' you don't get mean | I |
| He says that he never has understood | J |
| Why a feller can't play an' still be good | J |
| An' my Paw says that he's just the kind | K |
| Of a minister that he likes to find | K |
| So I'm always tickled as I can be | B |
| Whenever our minister comes for tea | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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