I Remember, I Remember Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGHGIJKJ ALML NOPO AQOQRSTS| I remember I remember | A |
| The house where I was born | B |
| The rent was thirty two a month | C |
| Which made my father mourn | B |
| He said he could remember when | D |
| His father paid the rent | E |
| And when a man's expenses did | F |
| Not take his every cent | E |
| - | |
| I remember I remember | A |
| My mother telling my cousin | G |
| That eggs had gone to twenty six | H |
| Or seven cents a dozen | G |
| And how she told my father that | I |
| She didn't like to speak | J |
| Of things like that but Bridget now | K |
| Demanded four a week | J |
| - | |
| I remember I remember | A |
| And with a mirthless laugh | L |
| My weekly board at college took | M |
| A jump to three and a half | L |
| - | |
| I bought an eighteen dollar suit | N |
| And father told me Sonny | O |
| I'll pay the bill this time but Oh | P |
| I am not made out of money | O |
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| I remember I remember | A |
| When I was young and brave | Q |
| And I declared Well Birdie we | O |
| Shall now begin to save | Q |
| It was a childish ignorance | R |
| But now 'tis little joy | S |
| To know I'm farther off from wealth | T |
| Than when I was a boy | S |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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