To A Usurper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IHIH JEJE KIKI LMLM| Aha a traitor in the camp | A |
| A rebel strangely bold | B |
| A lisping laughing toddling scamp | A |
| Not more than four years old | B |
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| To think that I who've ruled alone | C |
| So proudly in the past | D |
| Should be ejected from my throne | C |
| By my own son at last | D |
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| He trots his treason to and fro | E |
| As only babies can | F |
| And says he'll be his mamma's beau | E |
| When he's a gweat big man | F |
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| You stingy boy you've always had | G |
| A share in mamma's heart | H |
| Would you begrudge your poor old dad | G |
| The tiniest little part | H |
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| That mamma I regret to see | I |
| Inclines to take your part | H |
| As if a dual monarchy | I |
| Should rule her gentle heart | H |
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| But when the years of youth have sped | J |
| The bearded man I trow | E |
| Will quite forget he ever said | J |
| He'd be his mamma's beau | E |
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| Renounce your treason little son | K |
| Leave mamma's heart to me | I |
| For there will come another one | K |
| To claim your loyalty | I |
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| And when that other comes to you | L |
| God grant her love may shine | M |
| Through all your life as fair and true | L |
| As mamma's does through mine | M |
Eugene Field
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