The Happy Household Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDDC EEFFCDDDC GGHHCIIIC JJKKCDDDC| It's when the birds go piping and the daylight slowly breaks | A |
| That clamoring for his dinner our precious baby wakes | A |
| Then it's sleep no more for baby and it's sleep no more for me | B |
| For when he wants his dinner why it's dinner it must be | B |
| And of that lacteal fluid he partakes with great ado | C |
| While gran'ma laughs | D |
| And gran'pa laughs | D |
| And wife she laughs | D |
| And I well I laugh too | C |
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| You'd think to see us carrying on about that little tad | E |
| That like as not that baby was the first we'd ever had | E |
| But sakes alive he isn't yet we people make a fuss | F |
| As if the only baby in the world had come to us | F |
| And morning noon and night time whatever he may do | C |
| Gran'ma she laughs | D |
| Gran'pa he laughs | D |
| Wife she laughs | D |
| And I of course laugh too | C |
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| But once a likely spell ago when that poor little chick | G |
| From teething or from some such ill of infancy fell sick | G |
| You wouldn't know us people as the same that went about | H |
| A feelin' good all over just to hear him crow and shout | H |
| And though the doctor poohed our fears and said he'd pull him through | C |
| Old gran'ma cried | I |
| And gran'pa cried | I |
| And wife she cried | I |
| And I yes I cried too | C |
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| It makes us all feel good to have a baby on the place | J |
| With his everlastin' crowing and his dimpling dumpling face | J |
| The patter of his pinky feet makes music everywhere | K |
| And when he shakes those fists of his good by to every care | K |
| No matter what our trouble is when he begins to coo | C |
| Old gran'ma laughs | D |
| And gran'pa laughs | D |
| Wife she laughs | D |
| And I you bet I laugh too | C |
Eugene Field
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