You And Your Body Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF EGEGHH ICJCKK LKLKMM| WHOM is your boy going to for advice | A |
| Tough Johnny Jones at the end of the street | B |
| Rough Billy Green or untaught Jimmy Price | A |
| Who is now guiding his innocent feet | B |
| Who takes him walking or swimming today | C |
| You or the stranger just over the way | C |
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| Whom is your boy leaning on for a friend | D |
| Whom does he tell all his wee troubles to | E |
| Say now with whom does your little one spend | D |
| Most of his time with a stranger or you | E |
| Whose hand is leading him where he should go | F |
| Answer now Busy Man tell if you know | F |
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| Who is the pal that he opens his heart to | E |
| You or some stranger you never have seen | G |
| Whom does your boy all his secrets impart to | E |
| Maybe to some one whose mind is unclean | G |
| If it isn't to you that he comes he's in danger | H |
| What do you know of the worth of the stranger | H |
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| Oh be a boy with a boy that is yours | I |
| Play with him stay with him show him the way | C |
| Walk with him talk with him take him out doors | J |
| Be his best friend as you ought to today | C |
| Take him down town so the youngster may see | K |
| The right sort of man that you want him to be | K |
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| Don't be too busy to hear what he's telling | L |
| Don't send him off when he comes to your knee | K |
| This sort of father disaster is spelling | L |
| He's hungry for you and his pal you should be | K |
| Spend all the time that you can with the lad | M |
| He'll be a good boy if you'll be a good dad | M |
Edgar Albert Guest
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