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 breaksA
That clamoring for his dinner our precious baby wakesA
Then it's sleep no more for baby and it's sleep no more for meB
For when he wants his dinner why it's dinner it must beB
And of that lacteal fluid he partakes with great adoC
While gran'ma laughsD
And gran'pa laughsD
And wife she laughsD
And I well I laugh tooC
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You'd think to see us carrying on about that little tadE
That like as not that baby was the first we'd ever hadE
But sakes alive he isn't yet we people make a fussF
As if the only baby in the world had come to usF
And morning noon and night time whatever he may doC
Gran'ma she laughsD
Gran'pa he laughsD
Wife she laughsD
And I of course laugh tooC
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But once a likely spell ago when that poor little chickG
From teething or from some such ill of infancy fell sickG
You wouldn't know us people as the same that went aboutH
A feelin' good all over just to hear him crow and shoutH
And though the doctor poohed our fears and said he'd pull him throughC
Old gran'ma criedI
And gran'pa criedI
And wife she criedI
And I yes I cried tooC
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It makes us all feel good to have a baby on the placeJ
With his everlastin' crowing and his dimpling dumpling faceJ
The patter of his pinky feet makes music everywhereK
And when he shakes those fists of his good by to every careK
No matter what our trouble is when he begins to cooC
Old gran'ma laughsD
And gran'pa laughsD
Wife she laughsD
And I you bet I laugh tooC

Eugene Field



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