When We Were Kids Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FF B GHH IJKKJJLL| WHEN we wuz kids together an' we didn't have a care | A |
| In the lazy days of summer when our feet wuz allus bare | A |
| When a hat warn't necessary an' a necktie in the way | B |
| An' there warn't a blessed thing t' do but scamper off an' play | B |
| Then th' sun meant somethin' to us an' the blue skies overhead | C |
| Kinder stooped down in th' meadows where we children wuz an' said | C |
| 'Trout are bitin' in th' mill stream hurry up an' git yer pole | D |
| Now's th' time you should be hikin' 't' yer fav'rit fishin' hole ' | E |
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| When we wuz kids together an' there warn't a thing t' fret | F |
| ' Cept comin' home t' mother with our hair suspicious wet | F |
| Then th' sunbeams an' th' song birds used t' come t' us an' say ' | - |
| They are swimmin' in th' river better git there right away | B |
| As we passed 'em we could hear 'em laughin' splashin' down below ' | - |
| Then we hurried t' th' river jus' as fast as we could go | G |
| For there warn't a thing t' keep us like there is now we are men | H |
| An' th' sunbeams an' th' song birds an' the skies meant somethin' then | H |
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| Now th' same sunbeams come callin' an' th' same song birds come near | I |
| And the same blue skies bend o'er me and their messages I hear | J |
| Every dancing sunbeam tells me that out yonder in the stream | K |
| Now the pickerel are biting but I only sit and dream | K |
| For I've journeyed past my boyhood I 'm a slave forevermore | J |
| And I must not heed their whispers as I used to do of yore | J |
| There are bills to meet and duties that I must not dare not shirk | L |
| Mr Sunbeam quit yer coaxin' it's no use I've got t' work | L |
Edgar Albert Guest
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