When The Young Are Grown Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFBBGG| Once the house was lovely but it's lonely here to day | A |
| For time has come an' stained its walls an' called the young away | A |
| An' all that's left for mother an' for me till life is through | B |
| Is to sit an' tell each other what the children used to do | B |
| We couldn't keep 'em always an' we knew it from the start | C |
| We knew when they were babies that some day we'd have to part | C |
| But the years go by so swiftly an' the littlest one has flown | D |
| An' there's only me an' mother now left here to live alone | D |
| Oh there's just one consolation as we're sittin' here at night | E |
| They've grown to men an' women an' we brought 'em up all right | E |
| We've watched 'em as we've loved 'em an' they're splendid every one | F |
| An' we feel the Lord won't blame us for the way our work was done | F |
| They're clean an' kind an' honest an' the world respects 'em too | B |
| That's the dream of parents always an' our dreams have all come true | B |
| So although the house is lonely an' sometimes our eyes grow wet | G |
| We are proud of them an' happy an' we've nothing to regret | G |
Edgar Albert Guest
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