The Happy Household Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDDC EEFFCDDDC GGHHCIIIC JJKKCDDDCIt'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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