A Modern Grandmother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHIIAA| I want to see a grandmother like those there used to be | A |
| In a cosy little farm house where I could go to tea | A |
| A grandmother with spectacles and a funny frilly cap | B |
| Who would make me sugar cookies and take me on her lap | B |
| And tell me lots of stories of the days when she was small | C |
| When everything was perfect not like today at all | C |
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| My grandmother is grandma and she lives in a hotel | D |
| And when they ask What is his age she smiles and will not tell | D |
| Says she doesn't care to realize that she is growing old | E |
| Then whispers But you're far too big a boy for me to hold | E |
| Her dresses shine and rustle and her hair is wavy brown | F |
| And she has an automobile that she steers herself down town | F |
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| My grandmother is pretty Do I love her Rather yes | G |
| Our Norah calls her stylish and on the whole I guess | G |
| She's better than the other kind for once when I was ill | H |
| She helped my mother nurse me and read to me until | H |
| I fell asleep and stayed with me and wasn't tired and then | I |
| She played nine holes of golf with me when I got out again | I |
| Yet because I've never seen one just once I want to see | A |
| A real old fashioned grandmother like those there used to be | A |
Helen Leah Reed
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